The usefulness of this functionality is for when someone only wants to see a high level view of when there job ran. If someone has 100's of steps per allocation this makes it easy to see a summary of the jobs they ran when they don't really care about the individual step. If you can think of better documentation please submit a patch.
Danny On 10/17/12 02:03, Björn Torkelsson wrote: > On 2012-10-16 21:46 Danny Auble wrote: > >> sacct -X only shows the allocation information. What are you expecting >> to be printed? > Well, I expected it to print the first line of sacct ... without -X, i.e > to get a one line summary of the job. However reading the man page again > and taking into account that -X == --allocations it makes much more > sense. (though I'm not really convinced of the usefulness of -X). Maybe > it should be clarified in the man page that it is the allocation > information that is printed? > > /Björn > >> On 10/08/12 05:41, Björn Torkelsson wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> According to the man page sacct -X should show the cumulative >>> statistics, however when running sacct -X we never get any statistics, >>> which we do when running sacct without -X. Am I misunderstanding the >>> behaviour of sacct -X? >>> >>> >>> sacct -X -j 149177 -o JobID,State,MinCPU,AveCPU,SystemCPU,TotalCPU,MaxRSS >>> JobID State MinCPU AveCPU SystemCPU TotalCPU >>> MaxRSS >>> ------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- >>> ---------- >>> 149177 COMPLETED 00:00:00 >>> 00:00:00 >>> >>> >>> sacct -j 149177 -o JobID,State,MinCPU,AveCPU,SystemCPU,TotalCPU,MaxRSS >>> JobID State MinCPU AveCPU SystemCPU TotalCPU >>> MaxRSS >>> ------------ ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- >>> ---------- >>> 149177 COMPLETED 02:53:06 >>> 7-06:26:35 >>> 149177.batch COMPLETED 00:00:00 00:00:00 00:00.420 00:01.720 >>> 6464K >>> 149177.0 COMPLETED 7-06:22:53 14:31:54 02:53:06 7-06:26:34 >>> 31787960K >>> >>> We just upgraded slurm to 2.4.3 from 2.3.4. However we noticed the same >>> behaviour on 2.3.4. >>> >>> /Björn Torkelsson - HPC2N, Umeå University >>> >
