[slurm-users] How to read job accounting data long output? `sacct -l`

[Marcus Wagner]

Am 15.12.2022 um 08:23 schrieb Bjørn-Helge Mevik:
> Marcus Wagner <wagner at itc.rwth-aachen.de> writes:
> 
>> it it important to know, that the json output seems to be broken.
>>
>> First of all, it does not (compared to the normal output) obey to the truncate option -T.
>> But more important, I saw a job, where in a "day output" (-S <date> -E <date+1day>) no steps were recorded.
>> Using sacct -j <jobid> --json instead showed that job WITH steps.
> 
> It is hard to call it "broken" when it is documented behaviour:
> 
>   --json    Dump job information as JSON. All other formatting arguments will be ignored
> 

That depends on what is meant with formatting argument.
To me, formatting arguments are "-b", "-l", "-o", "-p|-P"
Instead, I can use filtering arguments with --json, like "-u", "-p" etc. And I would assume, that -S, -E and -T are filtering options, not formatting options.

But as I explained before, not obeying to -T is bad behaviour. That is nothing I would call "broken".


But getting sometimes no steps for a job (if in a larger JSON-output with many jobs) and then getting the steps, if one asks specifically for that jobid. That is something I would call broken.

Best Marcus

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