Sacct dump and formatted dump will be deprecated in future versions of slurm. See RELEASE_NOTES file in 2.5. They are most likely out of date and incorrect as you have noticed.
I would suggest using something else like the perl api or the format option of sacct to accomplish your goal. Loris Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > >Hi, > >I was looking at the format of the dump output of 'sacct' and comparing >this to the man page. The output I see corresponds to what I find in >the function > > do_dump > >in > > sacct/options.c > >but does not tally with the man page. For example, the JOB_TERMINATED >record supposedly has 37 fields, but actually has 41. The field I was >particularly interested in was 'MaxRSS'. The man page says that field >23 >is 'rss', but in fact it seems to be 'MaxVMSize'. > >I'm using version 2.2.7, but in the current git version, the >corresponding parts of 'do_dump' and of the man page on the website >appear unchanged. > >Is this indeed a documentation error? > >Regards > >Loris > >-- >Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) >ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email >[email protected]
