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NAME
sacct - displays accounting data for all jobs and job steps in the Slurm job accounting log or Slurm
database
SYNOPSIS
sacct [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
Accounting information for jobs invoked with Slurm are either logged in the job accounting log file or
saved to the Slurm database.
The sacct command displays job accounting data stored in the job accounting log file or Slurm database in
a variety of forms for your analysis. The sacct command displays information on jobs, job steps, status,
and exitcodes by default. You can tailor the output with the use of the --format= option to specify the
fields to be shown.
For the root user, the sacct command displays job accounting data for all users, although there are
options to filter the output to report only the jobs from a specified user or group.
For the non-root user, the sacct command limits the display of job accounting data to jobs that were
launched with their own user identifier (UID) by default. Data for other users can be displayed with the
--allusers, --user, or --uid options.
Note: If designated, the slurmdbd.conf option PrivateData may further
restrict the accounting data visible to users which are not SlurmUser, root, or a user with
AdminLevel=Admin. See the slurmdbd.conf man page for additional details on restricting access to
accounting data.
Note: If the AccountingStorageType is set to "accounting_storage/filetxt",
space characters embedded within account names, job names, and step names will be replaced by
underscores. If account names with embedded spaces are needed, it is recommended that a database
type of accounting storage be configured.
Note: The content's of Slurm's database are maintained in lower case. This may
result in some sacct output differing from that of other Slurm commands.
Note: Much of the data reported by sacct has been generated by
the wait3() and getrusage() system calls. Some systems gather and report incomplete information
for these calls; sacct reports values of 0 for this missing data. See your systems getrusage (3)
man page for information about which data are actually available on your system.
Elapsed time fields are presented as [days-]hours:minutes:seconds[.microseconds]. Only 'CPU'
fields will ever have microseconds.
The default input file is the file named in the AccountingStorageLoc parameter in slurm.conf.
OPTIONS
-a, --allusers
Displays all users jobs when run by user root or if PrivateData is not configured to jobs.
Otherwise display the current user's jobs
-A account_list , --accounts=account_list
Displays jobs when a comma separated list of accounts are given as the argument.
-b, --brief
Displays a brief listing, which includes the following data:
jobid
status
exitcode
-c, --completion
Use job completion data instead of job accounting. The JobCompType parameter in the slurm.conf
file must be defined to a non-none option. Does not support federated cluster information
(local data only).
--delimiter=characters
ASCII characters used to separate the fields when specifying the -p or -P options. The default
delimiter is a '|'. This options is ignored if -p or -P options are not specified.
-D, --duplicates
If Slurm job ids are reset, some job numbers will probably appear more than once in the
accounting log file but refer to different jobs. Such jobs can be distinguished by the
"submit" time stamp in the data records.
When data for specific jobs are requested with the --jobs option, sacct returns the most recent
job with that number. This behavior can be overridden by specifying --duplicates, in which case
all records that match the selection criteria will be returned.
NOTE: Revoked federated sibling jobs are hidden unless the --duplicates option is specified.
-e, --helpformat
Print a list of fields that can be specified with the --format option.
Fields available:
Account AdminComment AllocCPUS AllocGRES
AllocNodes AllocTRES AssocID AveCPU
AveCPUFreq AveDiskRead AveDiskWrite AvePages
AveRSS AveVMSize BlockID Cluster
Comment ConsumedEnergy ConsumedEnergyRaw CPUTime
CPUTimeRAW DerivedExitCode Elapsed ElapsedRaw
Eligible End ExitCode GID
Group JobID JobIDRaw JobName
Layout MaxDiskRead MaxDiskReadNode MaxDiskReadTask
MaxDiskWrite MaxDiskWriteNode MaxDiskWriteTask MaxPages
MaxPagesNode MaxPagesTask MaxRSS MaxRSSNode
MaxRSSTask MaxVMSize MaxVMSizeNode MaxVMSizeTask
McsLabel MinCPU MinCPUNode MinCPUTask
NCPUS NNodes NodeList NTasks
Priority Partition QOS QOSRAW
ReqCPUFreq ReqCPUFreqMin ReqCPUFreqMax ReqCPUFreqGov
ReqCPUS ReqGRES ReqMem ReqNodes
ReqTRES Reservation ReservationId Reserved
ResvCPU ResvCPURAW Start State
Submit Suspended SystemCPU Timelimit
TotalCPU UID User UserCPU
WCKey WCKeyID WorkDir
The section titled "Job Accounting Fields" describes these fields.
-E end_time, --endtime=end_time
Select jobs in any state before the specified time. If states are given with the -s option
return jobs in this state before this period.
Valid time formats are...
HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]
--federation
Show jobs from the federation if a member of one.
-f file, --file=file
Causes the sacct command to read job accounting data from the named file instead of the current
Slurm job accounting log file. Only applicable when running the filetxt plugin.
-g gid_list, --gid=gid_list --group=group_list
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started with the GID or the GROUP specified by the
gid_list or thegroup_list operand, which is a comma-separated list. Space characters are not
allowed. Default is no restrictions..
-h, --help
Displays a general help message.
-i, --nnodes=N
Return jobs which ran on this many nodes (N = min[-max])
-j job(.step) , --jobs=job(.step)
Displays information about the specified job(.step) or list of job(.step)s.
The job(.step) parameter is a comma-separated list of jobs. Space characters are not permitted
in this list. NOTE: A step id of 'batch' will display the information about the batch step.
The batch step information is only available after the batch job is complete unlike regular
steps which are available when they start.
The default is to display information on all jobs.
-k, --timelimit-min
Only send data about jobs with this timelimit. If used with timelimit_max this will be the
minimum timelimit of the range. Default is no restriction.
-K, --timelimit-max
Ignored by itself, but if timelimit_min is set this will be the maximum timelimit of the range.
Default is no restriction.
--local Show only jobs local to this cluster. Ignore other clusters in this federation (if any).
Overrides --federation.
-l, --long
Equivalent to specifying:
--format=jobid,jobname,partition,maxvmsize,maxvmsizenode,maxvmsizetask,
avevmsize,maxrss,maxrssnode,maxrsstask,averss,maxpages,maxpagesnode,
maxpagestask,avepages,mincpu,mincpunode,mincputask,avecpu,ntasks,
alloccpus,elapsed,state,exitcode,maxdiskread,maxdiskreadnode,maxdiskreadtask,
avediskread,maxdiskwrite,maxdiskwritenode,maxdiskwritetask,avediskwrite,
allocgres,reqgres,avecpufreq,reqcpufreqmin,reqcpufreqmax,reqcpufreqgov
-L, --allclusters
Display jobs ran on all clusters. By default, only jobs ran on the cluster from where sacct is
called are displayed.
-M cluster_list, --clusters=cluster_list
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started on the clusters specified by the cluster_list
operand, which is a comma-separated list of clusters. Space characters are not allowed in the
cluster_list. A value of 'all' will query to run on all clusters. The default is current
cluster you are executing the sacct command on or all clusters in the federation when executed
on a federated cluster. This option implicitly sets the --local option.
-n, --noheader
No heading will be added to the output. The default action is to display a header.
--noconvert
Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to 2G).
-N node_list, --nodelist=node_list
Display jobs that ran on any of these node(s). node_list can be a ranged string.
--name=jobname_list
Display jobs that have any of these name(s).
-o, --format
Comma separated list of fields. (use "--helpformat" for a list of available fields).
NOTE: When using the format option for listing various fields you can put a %NUMBER afterwards
to specify how many characters should be printed.
e.g. format=name%30 will print 30 characters of field name right justified. A %-30 will print
30 characters left justified.
When set, the SACCT_FORMAT environment variable will override the default format. For example:
SACCT_FORMAT="jobid,user,account,cluster"
-p, --parsable
output will be '|' delimited with a '|' at the end
-P, --parsable2
output will be '|' delimited without a '|' at the end
-q, --qos Only send data about jobs using these qos. Default is all.
-r, --partition
Comma separated list of partitions to select jobs and job steps from. The default is all
partitions.
-s state_list , --state=state_list
Selects jobs based on their state during the time period given. Unless otherwise specified,
the start and end time will be the current time when the --state option is specified and only
currently running jobs can be displayed. A start and/or end time must be specified to view
information about jobs not currently running. The following state designators are valid and
multiple state names may be specified using comma separators. Either the short or long form of
the state name may be used (e.g. CA or CANCELLED) and the name is case insensitive (e.g. ca and
CA both work).
BF BOOT_FAIL Job terminated due to launch failure, typically due to a hardware failure
(e.g. unable to boot the node or block and the job can not be requeued).
CA CANCELLED Job was explicitly cancelled by the user or system administrator. The job
may or may not have been initiated.
CD COMPLETED Job has terminated all processes on all nodes with an exit code of zero.
CF CONFIGURING Job has been allocated resources, but are waiting for them to become ready
for use (e.g. booting).
CG COMPLETING Job is in the process of completing. Some processes on some nodes may still
be active.
DL DEADLINE Job missed its deadline.
F FAILED Job terminated with non-zero exit code or other failure condition.
NF NODE_FAIL Job terminated due to failure of one or more allocated nodes.
PD PENDING Job is awaiting resource allocation. Note for a job to be selected in this
state it must have "EligibleTime" in the requested time interval or
different from "Unknown". The "EligibleTime" is displayed by the "scontrol
show job" command. For example jobs submitted with the "--hold" option
will have "EligibleTime=Unknown" as they are pending indefinitely.
PR PREEMPTED Job terminated due to preemption.
R RUNNING Job currently has an allocation.
RS RESIZING Job is about to change size.
S SUSPENDED Job has an allocation, but execution has been suspended.
TO TIMEOUT Job terminated upon reaching its time limit.
The state_list operand is a comma-separated list of these state designators. Space characters
are not allowed in the state_list NOTE: When specifying states and no start time is given the
default starttime is 'now'. .
-S, --starttime
Select jobs in any state after the specified time. Default is 00:00:00 of the current day,
unless '-s' is set then the default is 'now'. If states are given with the '-s' option then
only jobs in this state at this time will be returned.
Valid time formats are...
HH:MM[:SS] [AM|PM]
MMDD[YY] or MM/DD[/YY] or MM.DD[.YY]
MM/DD[/YY]-HH:MM[:SS]
YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]
-T, --truncate
Truncate time. So if a job started before --starttime the start time would be truncated to
--starttime. The same for end time and --endtime.
-u uid_list, --uid=uid_list, --user=user_list
Use this comma separated list of uids or user names to select jobs to display. By default, the
running user's uid is used.
--units=[KMGTP]
Display values in specified unit type. Takes precedence over --noconvert option.
--usage Display a command usage summary.
-v, --verbose
Primarily for debugging purposes, report the state of various variables during processing.
-V, --version
Print version.
-W wckey_list, --wckeys=wckey_list
Displays the statistics only for the jobs started on the wckeys specified by the wckey_list
operand, which is a comma-separated list of wckey names. Space characters are not allowed in
the wckey_list. Default is all wckeys.
-x associd_list, --associations=assoc_list
Displays the statistics only for the jobs running under the association ids specified by the
assoc_list operand, which is a comma-separated list of association ids. Space characters are
not allowed in the assoc_list. Default is all associations.
-X, --allocations
Only show cumulative statistics for each job, not the intermediate steps.
Job Accounting Fields
The following describes each job accounting field:
ALL Print all fields listed below.
AllocCPUs Count of allocated CPUs. Equivalent to NCPUS.
AllocGRES Names and counts of generic resources allocated.
AllocNodes
Number of nodes allocated to the job/step. 0 if the job is pending.
AllocTres Trackable resources. These are the resources allocated to the job/step after the job
started running. For pending jobs this should be blank. For more details see
AccountingStorageTRES in slurm.conf.
Account Account the job ran under.
AssocID Reference to the association of user, account and cluster.
AveCPU Average (system + user) CPU time of all tasks in job.
AveCPUFreq
Average weighted CPU frequency of all tasks in job, in kHz.
AveDiskRead
Average number of bytes read by all tasks in job.
AveDiskWrite
Average number of bytes written by all tasks in job.
AvePages Average number of page faults of all tasks in job.
AveRSS Average resident set size of all tasks in job.
AveVMSize Average Virtual Memory size of all tasks in job.
BlockID Block ID, applicable to BlueGene computers only.
Cluster Cluster name.
Comment The job's comment string when the AccountingStoreJobComment parameter in the slurm.conf
file is set (or defaults) to YES. The Comment string can be modified by invoking
sacctmgr modify job or the specialized sjobexitmod command.
ConsumedEnergy
Total energy consumed by all tasks in job, in joules. Note: Only in case of exclusive
job allocation this value reflects the jobs' real energy consumption.
CPUTime Formatted (Elapsed time * CPU) count used by a job or step.
CPUTimeRAW
Unlike above non formatted (Elapsed time * CPU) count for a job or step. Units are cpu-
seconds.
DerivedExitCode
The highest exit code returned by the job's job steps (srun invocations). Following the
colon is the signal that caused the process to terminate if it was terminated by a
signal. The DerivedExitCode can be modified by invoking sacctmgr modify job or the
specialized sjobexitmod command.
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
Eligible When the job became eligible to run.
End Termination time of the job. Format output is, YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS, unless changed
through the SLURM_TIME_FORMAT environment variable.
ExitCode The exit code returned by the job script or salloc, typically as set by the exit()
function. Following the colon is the signal that caused the process to terminate if it
was terminated by a signal.
GID The group identifier of the user who ran the job.
Group The group name of the user who ran the job.
JobID The number of the job or job step. It is in the form: job.jobstep.
JobIDRaw In case of job array print the JobId instead of the ArrayJobId. For non job arrays the
output is the JobId in the format job.jobstep.
JobName The name of the job or job step. The slurm_accounting.log file is a space delimited
file. Because of this if a space is used in the jobname an underscore is substituted for
the space before the record is written to the accounting file. So when the jobname is
displayed by sacct the jobname that had a space in it will now have an underscore in
place of the space.
Layout What the layout of a step was when it was running. This can be used to give you an idea
of which node ran which rank in your job.
MaxDiskRead
Maximum number of bytes read by all tasks in job.
MaxDiskReadNode
The node on which the maxdiskread occurred.
MaxDiskReadTask
The task ID where the maxdiskread occurred.
MaxDiskWrite
Maximum number of bytes written by all tasks in job.
MaxDiskWriteNode
The node on which the maxdiskwrite occurred.
MaxDiskWriteTask
The task ID where the maxdiskwrite occurred.
MaxPages Maximum number of page faults of all tasks in job.
MaxPagesNode
The node on which the maxpages occurred.
MaxPagesTask
The task ID where the maxpages occurred.
MaxRSS Maximum resident set size of all tasks in job.
MaxRSSNode
The node on which the maxrss occurred.
MaxRSSTask
The task ID where the maxrss occurred.
MaxVMSize Maximum Virtual Memory size of all tasks in job.
MaxVMSizeNode
The node on which the maxvmsize occurred.
MaxVMSizeTask
The task ID where the maxvmsize occurred.
MinCPU Minimum (system + user) CPU time of all tasks in job.
MinCPUNode
The node on which the mincpu occurred.
MinCPUTask
The task ID where the mincpu occurred.
NCPUS Count of allocated CPUs. Equivalent to AllocCPUS
Total number of CPUs allocated to the job.
NodeList List of nodes in job/step.
NNodes Number of nodes in a job or step. If the job is running, or ran, this count will be the
number allocated, else the number will be the number requested.
NTasks Total number of tasks in a job or step.
Priority Slurm priority.
Partition Identifies the partition on which the job ran.
QOS Name of Quality of Service.
QOSRAW Id of Quality of Service.
ReqCPUFreq
Requested CPU frequency for the step, in kHz. Note: This value applies only to a job
step. No value is reported for the job.
ReqCPUS Required CPUs.
ReqGRES Names and counts of generic resources requested.
ReqMem Minimum required memory for the job, in MB. A 'c' at the end of number represents Memory
Per CPU, a 'n' represents Memory Per Node. Note: This value is only from the job
allocation, not the step.
ReqNodes Requested minimum Node count for the job/step.
ReqTres Trackable resources. These are the minimum resource counts requested by the job/step at
submission time. For more details see AccountingStorageTRES in slurm.conf.
Reservation
Reservation Name.
ReservationId
Reservation Id.
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.
ResvCPU Formatted time for how long (cpu secs) a job was reserved for.
ResvCPURAW
Reserved CPUs in second format, not formatted.
Start Initiation time of the job in the same format as End.
State Displays the job status, or state.
Output can be RUNNING, RESIZING, SUSPENDED, COMPLETED, CANCELLED, FAILED, TIMEOUT,
PREEMPTED, BOOT_FAIL, DEADLINE or NODE_FAIL. If more information is available on the
job state than will fit into the current field width (for example, the uid that
CANCELLED a job) the state will be followed by a "+". You can increase the size of the
displayed state using the "%NUMBER" format modifier described earlier.
NOTE: The RUNNING state will return suspended jobs as well. In order to print suspended
jobs you must request SUSPENDED at a different call from RUNNING.
NOTE: The RUNNING state will return any jobs completed (cancelled or otherwise) in the
time period requested as the job was also RUNNING durning that time. If you are only
looking for job that finished please choose the appropriate state(s) without the RUNNING
state.
Submit The time and date stamp (in Universal Time Coordinated, UTC) the job was submitted.
The format of the output is identical to that of the End field.
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 How long the job was suspended for.
SystemCPU The amount of system CPU time used by the job or job step. The format of the output is
identical to that of the Elapsed field.
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.
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. The format of the output is identical to that of the Elapsed field.
NOTE: TotalCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process and does not include CPU
time of child processes.
UID The user identifier of the user who ran the job.
User The user name of the user who ran the job.
UserCPU The amount of user CPU time used by the job or job step. The format of the output is
identical to that of the Elapsed field.
NOTE: UserCPU provides a measure of the task's parent process and does not include CPU
time of child processes.
WCKey Workload Characterization Key. Arbitrary string for grouping orthogonal accounts
together.
WCKeyID Reference to the wckey.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Some sacct options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their
corresponding options, are listed below. (Note: Commandline options will always override these settings.)
SACCT_FEDERATION Same as --federation
SACCT_LOCAL Same as --local
SLURM_CONF The location of the Slurm configuration file.
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").
EXAMPLES
This example illustrates the default invocation of the sacct command:
# sacct
Jobid Jobname Partition Account AllocCPUS State ExitCode
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- --------
2 script01 srun acct1 1 RUNNING 0
3 script02 srun acct1 1 RUNNING 0
4 endscript srun acct1 1 RUNNING 0
4.0 srun acct1 1 COMPLETED 0
This example shows the same job accounting information with the brief option.
# sacct --brief
Jobid State ExitCode
---------- ---------- --------
2 RUNNING 0
3 RUNNING 0
4 RUNNING 0
4.0 COMPLETED 0
# sacct --allocations
Jobid Jobname Partition Account AllocCPUS State ExitCode
---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ------- ---------- --------
3 sja_init andy acct1 1 COMPLETED 0
4 sjaload andy acct1 2 COMPLETED 0
5 sja_scr1 andy acct1 1 COMPLETED 0
6 sja_scr2 andy acct1 18 COMPLETED 2
7 sja_scr3 andy acct1 18 COMPLETED 0
8 sja_scr5 andy acct1 2 COMPLETED 0
9 sja_scr7 andy acct1 90 COMPLETED 1
10 endscript andy acct1 186 COMPLETED 0
This example demonstrates the ability to customize the output of the sacct command. The fields are
displayed in the order designated on the command line.
# sacct --format=jobid,elapsed,ncpus,ntasks,state
Jobid Elapsed Ncpus Ntasks State
---------- ---------- ---------- -------- ----------
3 00:01:30 2 1 COMPLETED
3.0 00:01:30 2 1 COMPLETED
4 00:00:00 2 2 COMPLETED
4.0 00:00:01 2 2 COMPLETED
5 00:01:23 2 1 COMPLETED
5.0 00:01:31 2 1 COMPLETED
This example demonstrates the use of the -T (--truncate) option when used with -S (--starttime) and -E
(--endtime). When the -T option is used, the start time of the job will be the specified -S value if the
job was started before the specified time, otherwise the time will be the job's start time. The end time
will be the specified -E option if the job ends after the specified time, otherwise it will be the jobs
end time.
NOTE: If no -s (--state) option is given sacct will display jobs that ran during the specified time,
otherwise it returns jobs that were in the state requested during that period of time.
Without -T (normal operation) sacct output would be like this.
# sacct -S2014-07-03-11:40 -E2014-07-03-12:00 -X -ojobid,start,end,state
JobID Start End State
--------- --------------------- -------------------- ------------
2 2014-07-03T11:33:16 2014-07-03T11:59:01 COMPLETED
3 2014-07-03T11:35:21 Unknown RUNNING
4 2014-07-03T11:35:21 2014-07-03T11:45:21 COMPLETED
5 2014-07-03T11:41:01 Unknown RUNNING
By adding the -T option the job's start and end times are truncated to reflect only the time requested.
If a job started after the start time requested or finished before the end time requested those times are
not altered. The -T option is useful when determining exact run times during any given period.
# sacct -T -S2014-07-03-11:40 -E2014-07-03-12:00 -X -ojobid,jobname,user,start,end,state
JobID Start End State
--------- --------------------- -------------------- ------------
2 2014-07-03T11:40:00 2014-07-03T11:59:01 COMPLETED
3 2014-07-03T11:40:00 2014-07-03T12:00:00 RUNNING
4 2014-07-03T11:40:00 2014-07-03T11:45:21 COMPLETED
5 2014-07-03T11:41:01 2014-07-03T12:00:00 RUNNING
COPYING
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Copyright Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Lawrence Livermore National Security. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER).
Copyright (C) 2010-2014 SchedMD LLC.
This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see
<https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.
Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
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FILES
/etc/slurm.conf
Entries to this file enable job accounting and designate the job accounting log file that
collects system job accounting.
/var/log/slurm_accounting.log
The default job accounting log file. By default, this file is set to read and write permission
for root only.
SEE ALSO
sstat(1), ps (1), srun(1), squeue(1), getrusage (2), time (2)
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