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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,
unless running in a federation with either FederationParameters=fed_display configured or the
--federation option set. 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.
-F, --future
Report nodes in FUTURE state.
-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 %.11i %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 behavior.
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 The total memory, in MB, currently free on the node as reported by the OS. This value is for
informational use only and is not used for scheduling.
%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 If a node is in an advanced reservation print the name of that reservation.
%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 as reported by the OS.
%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 maximum 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 as reported by the OS.
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
The total memory, in MB, currently free on the node as reported by the OS. This value is
for informational use only and is not used for scheduling.
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. e.g. "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, --json=list, --json=<data_parser>
Dump information as JSON using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with
parameters. All information is dumped, even if it would normally not be. Sorting and formatting
arguments passed to other options are ignored; however, filtering arguments are still used.
-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 about the node(s) in 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, BLOCKED, 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, --yaml=list, --yaml=<data_parser>
Dump information as YAML using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with
parameters. All information is dumped, even if it would normally not be. Sorting and formatting
arguments passed to other options are ignored; however, filtering arguments are still used.
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_tres 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, blocked, completing, down, drained,
draining, fail, failing, future, idle, maint, mixed, perfctrs, planned, power_down, power_up,
reserved, and unknown. Their abbreviated forms are: alloc, block, comp, down, drain, drng, fail,
failg, futr, idle, maint, mix, npc, plnd, 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.
BLOCKED The node has been blocked by exclusive topo job.
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 allocated 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 did not register correctly with the controller. This happens when a node registers
with less resources than configured in the slurm.conf file. The node will clear from this
state with a valid registration (i.e. 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. Or the node has a suspended
job allocated to some of its TRES (e.g. memory).
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
SCONTROL_FUTURE -F, --future
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_DEBUG_FLAGS Specify debug flags for sinfo to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page
for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting
in the slurm.conf.
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)