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NAME
sinfo - View information about Slurm nodes and partitions.
SYNOPSIS
sinfo [OPTIONS...]
DESCRIPTION
sinfo is used to view partition and node information for a system running Slurm.
OPTIONS
-a, --all
Display information about all partitions. This causes information to be displayed
about partitions that are configured as hidden and partitions that are unavailable
to the user's group.
-M, --clusters=<string>
Clusters to issue commands to. Multiple cluster names may be comma separated. A
value of 'all' will query all clusters. Note that the SlurmDBD must be up for this
option to work properly. This option implicitly sets the --local option.
-d, --dead
If set, only report state information for non-responding (dead) nodes.
-e, --exact
If set, do not group node information on multiple nodes unless their configurations
to be reported are identical. Otherwise cpu count, memory size, and disk space for
nodes will be listed with the minimum value followed by a "+" for nodes with the
same partition and state (e.g. "250+").
--federation
Show all partitions from the federation if a member of one.
-o, --format=<output_format>
Specify the information to be displayed using an sinfo format string. If the
command is executed in a federated cluster environment and information about more
than one cluster is to be displayed and the -h, --noheader option is used, then the
cluster name will be displayed before the default output formats shown below.
Format strings transparently used by sinfo when running with various options are:
default "%#P %.5a %.10l %.6D %.6t %N"
--summarize "%#P %.5a %.10l %.16F %N"
--long "%#P %.5a %.10l %.10s %.4r %.8h %.10g %.6D %.11T %N"
--Node "%#N %.6D %#P %6t"
--long --Node "%#N %.6D %#P %.11T %.4c %.8z %.6m %.8d %.6w %.8f %20E"
--list-reasons "%20E %9u %19H %N"
--long --list-reasons
"%20E %12U %19H %6t %N"
In the above format strings, the use of "#" represents the maximum length of any
partition name or node list to be printed. A pass is made over the records to be
printed to establish the size in order to align the sinfo output, then a second
pass is made over the records to print them. Note that the literal character "#"
itself is not a valid field length specification, but is only used to document this
behaviour.
The format of each field is "%[[.]size]type[suffix]"
size Minimum field size. If no size is specified, whatever is needed to print
the information will be used.
. Indicates the output should be right justified and size must be
specified. By default output is left justified.
suffix Arbitrary string to append to the end of the field.
Valid type specifications include:
%all Print all fields available for this data type with a vertical bar separating
each field.
%a State/availability of a partition.
%A Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle". Do not use this
with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be
placed on separate lines.
%b Features currently active on the nodes, also see %f.
%B The max number of CPUs per node available to jobs in the partition.
%c Number of CPUs per node.
%C Number of CPUs by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Do not
use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states
will be placed on separate lines.
%d Size of temporary disk space per node in megabytes.
%D Number of nodes.
%e Free memory of a node.
%E The reason a node is unavailable (down, drained, or draining states).
%f Features available the nodes, also see %b.
%F Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Note
the use of this format option with a node state format option ("%t" or "%T")
will result in the different node states being be reported on separate lines.
%g Groups which may use the nodes.
%G Generic resources (gres) associated with the nodes.
%h Print the OverSubscribe setting for the partition.
%H Print the timestamp of the reason a node is unavailable.
%I Partition job priority weighting factor.
%l Maximum time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds"
%L Default time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds"
%m Size of memory per node in megabytes.
%M PreemptionMode.
%n List of node hostnames.
%N List of node names.
%o List of node communication addresses.
%O CPU load of a node.
%p Partition scheduling tier priority.
%P Partition name followed by "*" for the default partition, also see %R.
%r Only user root may initiate jobs, "yes" or "no".
%R Partition name, also see %P.
%s Maximum job size in nodes.
%S Allowed allocating nodes.
%t State of nodes, compact form.
%T State of nodes, extended form.
%u Print the user name of who set the reason a node is unavailable.
%U Print the user name and uid of who set the reason a node is unavailable.
%v Print the version of the running slurmd daemon.
%V Print the cluster name if running in a federation.
%w Scheduling weight of the nodes.
%X Number of sockets per node.
%Y Number of cores per socket.
%Z Number of threads per core.
%z Extended processor information: number of sockets, cores, threads (S:C:T) per
node.
-O, --Format=<output_format>
Specify the information to be displayed. Also see the -o <output_format>,
--format=<output_format> option (which supports greater flexibility in formatting,
but does not support access to all fields because we ran out of letters). Requests
a comma separated list of job information to be displayed.
The format of each field is "type[:[.][size][suffix]]"
size The minimum field size. If no size is specified, 20 characters will be
allocated to print the information.
. Indicates the output should be right justified and size must be
specified. By default, output is left justified.
suffix Arbitrary string to append to the end of the field.
Valid type specifications include:
All Print all fields available in the -o format for this data type with a
vertical bar separating each field.
AllocMem
Prints the amount of allocated memory on a node.
AllocNodes
Allowed allocating nodes.
Available
State/availability of a partition.
Cluster
Print the cluster name if running in a federation.
Comment
Comment. (Arbitrary descriptive string)
Cores Number of cores per socket.
CPUs Number of CPUs per node.
CPUsLoad
CPU load of a node.
CPUsState
Number of CPUs by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Do not
use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node
states will be placed on separate lines.
DefaultTime
Default time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds".
Disk Size of temporary disk space per node in megabytes.
Extra Arbitrary string on the node.
Features
Features available on the nodes. Also see features_act.
features_act
Features currently active on the nodes. Also see features.
FreeMem
Free memory of a node.
Gres Generic resources (gres) associated with the nodes.
GresUsed
Generic resources (gres) currently in use on the nodes.
Groups Groups which may use the nodes.
MaxCPUsPerNode
The max number of CPUs per node available to jobs in the partition.
Memory Size of memory per node in megabytes.
NodeAddr
List of node communication addresses.
NodeAI Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle". Do not use this
with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be
placed on separate lines.
NodeAIOT
Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Do not
use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node
states will be placed on separate lines.
NodeHost
List of node hostnames.
NodeList
List of node names.
Nodes Number of nodes.
OverSubscribe
Whether jobs may oversubscribe compute resources (e.g. CPUs).
Partition
Partition name followed by "*" for the default partition, also see %R.
PartitionName
Partition name, also see %P.
Port Node TCP port.
PreemptMode
Preemption mode.
PriorityJobFactor
Partition factor used by priority/multifactor plugin in calculating job
priority.
PriorityTier or Priority
Partition scheduling tier priority.
Reason The reason a node is unavailable (down, drained, or draining states).
Root Only user root may initiate jobs, "yes" or "no".
Size Maximum job size in nodes.
SocketCoreThread
Extended processor information: number of sockets, cores, threads (S:C:T)
per node.
Sockets
Number of sockets per node.
StateCompact
State of nodes, compact form.
StateLong
State of nodes, extended form.
StateComplete
State of nodes, including all node state flags. eg. "idle+cloud+power"
Threads
Number of threads per core.
Time Maximum time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds".
TimeStamp
Print the timestamp of the reason a node is unavailable.
User Print the user name of who set the reason a node is unavailable.
UserLong
Print the user name and uid of who set the reason a node is unavailable.
Version
Print the version of the running slurmd daemon.
Weight Scheduling weight of the nodes.
--help Print a message describing all sinfo options.
--hide Do not display information about hidden partitions. Partitions that are configured
as hidden or are not available to the user's group will not be displayed. This is
the default behavior.
-i, --iterate=<seconds>
Print the state on a periodic basis. Sleep for the indicated number of seconds
between reports. By default prints a time stamp with the header.
--json Dump node information as JSON. All other formatting and filtering arguments will be
ignored.
-R, --list-reasons
List reasons nodes are in the down, drained, fail or failing state. When nodes are
in these states Slurm supports the inclusion of a "reason" string by an
administrator. This option will display the first 20 characters of the reason
field and list of nodes with that reason for all nodes that are, by default, down,
drained, draining or failing. This option may be used with other node filtering
options (e.g. -r, -d, -t, -n), however, combinations of these options that result
in a list of nodes that are not down or drained or failing will not produce any
output. When used with -l the output additionally includes the current node state.
--local
Show only jobs local to this cluster. Ignore other clusters in this federation (if
any). Overrides --federation.
-l, --long
Print more detailed information. This is ignored if the --format option is
specified.
--noconvert
Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to 2G).
-N, --Node
Print information in a node-oriented format with one line per node and partition.
That is, if a node belongs to more than one partition, then one line for each
node-partition pair will be shown. If --partition is also specified, then only one
line per node in this partition is shown. The default is to print information in a
partition-oriented format. This is ignored if the --format option is specified.
-n, --nodes=<nodes>
Print information about the specified node(s). Multiple nodes may be comma
separated or expressed using a node range expression (e.g. "linux[00-17]") Limiting
the query to just the relevant nodes can measurably improve the performance of the
command for large clusters.
-h, --noheader
Do not print a header on the output.
-p, --partition=<partition>
Print information only about the specified partition(s). Multiple partitions are
separated by commas.
-T, --reservation
Only display information about Slurm reservations.
NOTE: This option causes sinfo to ignore most other options, which are focused on
partition and node information.
-r, --responding
If set only report state information for responding nodes.
-S, --sort=<sort_list>
Specification of the order in which records should be reported. This uses the same
field specification as the <output_format>. Multiple sorts may be performed by
listing multiple sort fields separated by commas. The field specifications may be
preceded by "+" or "-" for ascending (default) and descending order respectively.
The partition field specification, "P", may be preceded by a "#" to report
partitions in the same order that they appear in Slurm's configuration file,
slurm.conf. For example, a sort value of "+P,-m" requests that records be printed
in order of increasing partition name and within a partition by decreasing memory
size. The default value of sort is "#P,-t" (partitions ordered as configured then
decreasing node state). If the --Node option is selected, the default sort value
is "N" (increasing node name).
-t, --states=<states>
List nodes only having the given state(s). Multiple states may be comma separated
and the comparison is case insensitive. If the states are separated by '&', then
the nodes must be in all states. Possible values include (case insensitive):
ALLOC, ALLOCATED, CLOUD, COMP, COMPLETING, DOWN, DRAIN (for node in DRAINING or
DRAINED states), DRAINED, DRAINING, FAIL, FUTURE, FUTR, IDLE, MAINT, MIX, MIXED,
NO_RESPOND, NPC, PERFCTRS, PLANNED, POWER_DOWN, POWERING_DOWN, POWERED_DOWN,
POWERING_UP, REBOOT_ISSUED, REBOOT_REQUESTED, RESV, RESERVED, UNK, and UNKNOWN. By
default nodes in the specified state are reported whether they are responding or
not. The --dead and --responding options may be used to filter nodes by the
corresponding flag.
-s, --summarize
List only a partition state summary with no node state details. This is ignored if
the --format option is specified.
--usage
Print a brief message listing the sinfo options.
-v, --verbose
Provide detailed event logging through program execution.
-V, --version
Print version information and exit.
--yaml Dump node information as YAML. All other formatting and filtering arguments will be
ignored.
OUTPUT FIELD DESCRIPTIONS
AVAIL Partition state. Can be either up, down, drain, or inact (for INACTIVE). See the
partition definition's State parameter in the slurm.conf(5) man page for more
information.
CPUS Count of CPUs (processors) on these nodes.
S:C:T Count of sockets (S), cores (C), and threads (T) on these nodes.
SOCKETS
Count of sockets on these nodes.
CORES Count of cores on these nodes.
THREADS
Count of threads on these nodes.
GROUPS Resource allocations in this partition are restricted to the named groups. all
indicates that all groups may use this partition.
JOB_SIZE
Minimum and maximum node count that can be allocated to any user job. A single
number indicates the minimum and maximum node count are the same. infinite is used
to identify partitions without a maximum node count.
TIMELIMIT
Maximum time limit for any user job in days-hours:minutes:seconds. infinite is
used to identify partitions without a job time limit.
MEMORY Size of real memory in megabytes on these nodes.
NODELIST
Names of nodes associated with this particular configuration.
NODES Count of nodes with this particular configuration.
NODES(A/I)
Count of nodes with this particular configuration by node state in the form
"allocated/idle".
NODES(A/I/O/T)
Count of nodes with this particular configuration by node state in the form
"allocated/idle/other/total".
PARTITION
Name of a partition. Note that the suffix "*" identifies the default partition.
PORT Local TCP port used by slurmd on the node.
ROOT Is the ability to allocate resources in this partition restricted to user root, yes
or no.
OVERSUBSCRIBE
Whether jobs allocated resources in this partition can/will oversubscribe those
compute resources (e.g. CPUs). NO indicates resources are never oversubscribed.
EXCLUSIVE indicates whole nodes are dedicated to jobs (equivalent to srun
--exclusive option, may be used even with select/cons_res managing individual
processors). FORCE indicates resources are always available to be oversubscribed.
YES indicates resource may be oversubscribed, if requested by the job's resource
allocation.
NOTE: If OverSubscribe is set to FORCE or YES, the OversubScribe value will be
appended to the output.
STATE State of the nodes. Possible states include: allocated, completing, down, drained,
draining, fail, failing, future, idle, maint, mixed, perfctrs, planned, power_down,
power_up, reserved, and unknown. Their abbreviated forms are: alloc, comp, down,
drain, drng, fail, failg, futr, idle, maint, mix, npc, pow_dn, pow_up, resv, and
unk respectively.
NOTE: The suffix "*" identifies nodes that are presently not responding.
TMP_DISK
Size of temporary disk space in megabytes on these nodes.
NODE STATE CODES
Node state codes are shortened as required for the field size. These node states may be
followed by a special character to identify state flags associated with the node. The
following node suffixes and states are used:
* The node is presently not responding and will not be allocated any new work. If the
node remains non-responsive, it will be placed in the DOWN state (except in the case
of COMPLETING, DRAINED, DRAINING, FAIL, FAILING nodes).
~ The node is presently in powered off.
# The node is presently being powered up or configured.
! The node is pending power down.
% The node is presently being powered down.
$ The node is currently in a reservation with a flag value of "maintenance".
@ The node is pending reboot.
^ The node reboot was issued.
- The node is planned by the backfill scheduler for a higher priority job.
ALLOCATED The node has been allocated to one or more jobs.
ALLOCATED+ The node is allocated to one or more active jobs plus one or more jobs are in
the process of COMPLETING.
COMPLETING All jobs associated with this node are in the process of COMPLETING. This
node state will be removed when all of the job's processes have terminated and
the Slurm epilog program (if any) has terminated. See the Epilog parameter
description in the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.
DOWN The node is unavailable for use. Slurm can automatically place nodes in this
state if some failure occurs. System administrators may also explicitly place
nodes in this state. If a node resumes normal operation, Slurm can
automatically return it to service. See the ReturnToService and SlurmdTimeout
parameter descriptions in the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.
DRAINED The node is unavailable for use per system administrator request. See the
update node command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page
for more information.
DRAINING The node is currently executing a job, but will not be allocated additional
jobs. The node state will be changed to state DRAINED when the last job on it
completes. Nodes enter this state per system administrator request. See the
update node command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page
for more information.
FAIL The node is expected to fail soon and is unavailable for use per system
administrator request. See the update node command in the scontrol(1) man
page or the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.
FAILING The node is currently executing a job, but is expected to fail soon and is
unavailable for use per system administrator request. See the update node
command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page for more
information.
FUTURE The node is currently not fully configured, but expected to be available at
some point in the indefinite future for use.
IDLE The node is not allocated to any jobs and is available for use.
INVAL The node registered with an invalid configuration. The node will clear from
this state with a valid registration (ie. a slurmd restart is required).
MAINT The node is currently in a reservation with a flag value of "maintenance".
REBOOT_ISSUED
A reboot request has been sent to the agent configured to handle this request.
REBOOT_REQUESTED
A request to reboot this node has been made, but hasn't been handled yet.
MIXED The node has some of its CPUs ALLOCATED while others are IDLE.
PERFCTRS (NPC)
Network Performance Counters associated with this node are in use, rendering
this node as not usable for any other jobs
PLANNED The node is planned by the backfill scheduler for a higher priority job.
POWER_DOWN The node is pending power down.
POWERED_DOWN
The node is currently powered down and not capable of running any jobs.
POWERING_DOWN
The node is in the process of powering down and not capable of running any
jobs.
POWERING_UP The node is in the process of being powered up.
RESERVED The node is in an advanced reservation and not generally available.
UNKNOWN The Slurm controller has just started and the node's state has not yet been
determined.
PERFORMANCE
Executing sinfo sends a remote procedure call to slurmctld. If enough calls from sinfo or
other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmctld daemon come
in at once, it can result in a degradation of performance of the slurmctld daemon,
possibly resulting in a denial of service.
Do not run sinfo or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to
slurmctld from loops in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls
to sinfo to the minimum necessary for the information you are trying to gather.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Some sinfo options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables,
along with their corresponding options, are listed below. NOTE: Command line options will
always override these settings.
SINFO_ALL Same as -a, --all
SINFO_FEDERATION Same as --federation
SINFO_FORMAT Same as -o <output_format>, --format=<output_format>
SINFO_LOCAL Same as --local
SINFO_PARTITION Same as -p <partition>, --partition=<partition>
SINFO_SORT Same as -S <sort>, --sort=<sort>
SLURM_CLUSTERS Same as --clusters
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
Report basic node and partition configurations:
$ sinfo
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE NODELIST
batch up infinite 2 alloc adev[8-9]
batch up infinite 6 idle adev[10-15]
debug* up 30:00 8 idle adev[0-7]
Report partition summary information:
$ sinfo -s
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES(A/I/O/T) NODELIST
batch up infinite 2/6/0/8 adev[8-15]
debug* up 30:00 0/8/0/8 adev[0-7]
Report more complete information about the partition debug:
$ sinfo --long --partition=debug
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT JOB_SIZE ROOT OVERSUBS GROUPS NODES STATE NODELIST
debug* up 30:00 8 no no all 8 idle dev[0-7]
Report only those nodes that are in state DRAINED:
$ sinfo --states=drained
PARTITION AVAIL NODES TIMELIMIT STATE NODELIST
debug* up 2 30:00 drain adev[6-7]
Report node-oriented information with details and exact matches:
$ sinfo -Nel
NODELIST NODES PARTITION STATE CPUS MEMORY TMP_DISK WEIGHT FEATURES REASON
adev[0-1] 2 debug* idle 2 3448 38536 16 (null) (null)
adev[2,4-7] 5 debug* idle 2 3384 38536 16 (null) (null)
adev3 1 debug* idle 2 3394 38536 16 (null) (null)
adev[8-9] 2 batch allocated 2 246 82306 16 (null) (null)
adev[10-15] 6 batch idle 2 246 82306 16 (null) (null)
Report only down, drained and draining nodes and their reason field:
$ sinfo -R
REASON NODELIST
Memory errors dev[0,5]
Not Responding dev8
COPYING
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SEE ALSO
scontrol(1), squeue(1), slurm_load_ctl_conf (3), slurm_load_jobs (3), slurm_load_node (3),
slurm_load_partitions (3), slurm_reconfigure (3), slurm_shutdown (3), slurm_update_job
(3), slurm_update_node (3), slurm_update_partition (3), slurm.conf(5)