This is the 'batch' step and is intended. "Tomi Pieviläinen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> What are your ideas? If you meant why we need them, we are collecting usage statistics from the sql db for reports, and have found that some times the steps refer to job -2 (which seems to be the NO_VAL coverted from unsigned to signed int). We haven't figured yet why they are not related to any jobs, and if it's intentional or a bug in slurm.
