[slurm-users] [External] About sacct --format: detailed info about the fields

[Prentice Bisbal]

Which fields are you talking about. All of the fields seem to be 
well-documented in the sacct man page 
(https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html). For example, you mention the 
time fields. For format for all the time fields seem to be rather well 
documented (See below) and you can use the SLURM_TIME_FORMAT environment 
variable to specify the format of some of those time fields.

Can you give a more specific example of a field you are having trouble 
parsing, and what programming language you are using to parse it? I had 
no problem parsing the date/time fields in Python. For example I wrote a 
Python routine that converted elapsed to seconds. I'd share the code 
with you, but I can't find it at the moment. I think it's on my personal 
computer instead of my work computer, which I'm using now.

 From https://slurm.schedmd.com/sacct.html:

> Elapsed time fields are presented as 
> [days-]hours:minutes:seconds[.microseconds]. Only 'CPU' fields will 
> ever have microseconds. 


> *CPUTime*
>     Time used (Elapsed time * CPU count) by a job or step in HH:MM:SS
>     format.
>
> *CPUTimeRAW*
>     Time used (Elapsed time * CPU count) by a job or step in cpu-seconds. 
>

> *Elapsed*
>     The jobs elapsed time. 
>
>     The format of this fields output is as follows:
>
>
>         /[DD-[HH:]]MM:SS/
>
>
>
>     as defined by the following:
>
>
>         /DD/
>             days 
>         /hh/
>             hours 
>         /mm/
>             minutes 
>         /ss/
>             seconds 
>

> *End*
>     Termination time of the job. Format output is,
>     YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, unless changed through the SLURM_TIME_FORMAT
>     environment variable. 
>

> *Reserved*
>     How much wall clock time was used as reserved time for this job.
>     This is derived from how long a job was waiting from eligible time
>     to when it actually started. Format is the same as *Elapsed*.
>
> *ResvCPU*
>     How many CPU seconds were used as reserved time for this job.
>     Format is the same as *Elapsed*.
>
> *ResvCPURAW*
>     How many CPU seconds were used as reserved time for this job.
>     Format is in processor seconds.
>
> *Start*
>     Initiation time of the job in the same format as *End*. 
>

> *Submit*
>     The time the job was submitted in the same format as *End*.
>
>     NOTE: If a job is requeued, the submit time is reset. To obtain
>     the original submit time it is necessary to use the -D or
>     --duplicate option to display all duplicate entries for a job.
>
> *Suspended*
>     The amount of time a job or job step was suspended. Format is the
>     same as /Elapsed/.
>
> *SystemCPU*
>     The amount of system CPU time used by the job or job step. Format
>     is the same as *Elapsed*.
>
>     NOTE: SystemCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process
>     and does not include CPU time of child processes.
>
> *Timelimit*
>     What the timelimit was/is for the job. Format is the same as
>     *Elapsed*.
>
> *TimelimitRaw*
>     What the timelimit was/is for the job. Format is in number of
>     minutes.
>
> *TotalCPU*
>     The sum of the SystemCPU and UserCPU time used by the job or job
>     step. The total CPU time of the job may exceed the job's elapsed
>     time for jobs that include multiple job steps. Format is the same
>     as *Elapsed*.
>
>     NOTE: TotalCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process and
>     does not include CPU time of child processes.
>

> *SLURM_TIME_FORMAT*
>     Specify the format used to report time stamps. A value of
>     /standard/, the default value, generates output in the form
>     "year-month-dateThour:minute:second". A value of /relative/
>     returns only "hour:minute:second" if the current day. For other
>     dates in the current year it prints the "hour:minute" preceded by
>     "Tomorr" (tomorrow), "Ystday" (yesterday), the name of the day for
>     the coming week (e.g. "Mon", "Tue", etc.), otherwise the date
>     (e.g. "25 Apr"). For other years it returns a date month and year
>     without a time (e.g. "6 Jun 2012"). All of the time stamps use a
>     24 hour format.
>
>     A valid strftime() format can also be specified. For example, a
>     value of "%a %T" will report the day of the week and a time stamp
>     (e.g. "Mon 12:34:56").
>

On 3/5/21 12:39 AM, xiaojinghu93 at 163.com wrote:
> Hello, guys,
>
> I am doing a parsing job on the output of the sacct command and I know fields that could be specified to be outputted.
> The difficulty I am facing is that I am in lack of detailed info about the fields. I need to do calculation on the fields so I need to understand what values they will be taking. For example, time field maybe in format like “YYYY:DDTHH:SS” or just  “Unknown”.
> Where can I find those detailed info? Is their any documentation about it?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Best Regards,
> Xiaojing
>
-- 
Prentice

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