[slurm-users] sacct

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 6/2/20 12:16 PM, Sidhu, Khushwant wrote:
> Do these parameters need to be enabled, plugins added/enabled ?
> Could it be a database problem ?
> 
> (I've come to an previously installed slurm installation & have very little slurm experience)

Yes, the database records may be purged after some time, see how to make 
the setup in
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_database#setting-database-purge-parameters

You can check your database purge configuration by:

$ grep -i purge /etc/slurm/slurmdbd.conf

Best regards,
Ole

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slurm-users <slurm-users-bounces at lists.schedmd.com> On Behalf Of Ole Holm Nielsen
> Sent: 02 June 2020 10:08
> To: slurm-users at lists.schedmd.com
> Subject: Re: [slurm-users] sacct
> 
> On 6/2/20 10:16 AM, Sidhu, Khushwant wrote:
>> When a job is running & I use the command:
>>
>> Sacct –format “AveCPU, AveDiskRead, AveDiskWrite,user” –j 12345
>>
>> I get values for all parameters.
>>
>> However, when a job is completed, the same command returns no values
>> for all but ‘user’.
>>
>> Is there a reason for this ?
> 
> This works for me with a completed job:
> 
> # sacct -j 2507000 --format AveCPU,AveDiskRead,AveDiskWrite,user
>       AveCPU    AveDiskRead   AveDiskWrite      User
> ---------- -------------- -------------- ---------
>                                               xxxxxx
>     00:00:00          0.04M          0.00M
>     00:00:00          0.00M              0
>     01:00:22          1.63M          1.66M
> 
> We run Slurm 19.05.6.
> 
> /Ole
> 
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