On 11/30/2012 07:27 AM, Andy Wettstein wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:47:03PM -0700, Danny Auble wrote:
>> It could be reservations. Any unused time in a reservation is spread
>> across those associations in the reservation. So sreport would print
>> out this info while sacct would not.
> The only reservation I can think of during that time was for
> maintenance. That time wouldn't get associated to users, right?
Yes, you are correct.
>> Keep in mind also if the user is in multiple accounts each association
>> gets it's own line, this could also lead to what you see.
>>
>> sreport -v -t seconds user topusage start=11/26
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Top 10 Users 2012-11-26T00:00:00 - 2012-11-28T23:59:59 (259200 secs)
>> Time reported in CPU Seconds
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Cluster Login Proper Name Account Used
>> --------- --------- --------------- --------------- ----------
>> snowflake da Danny Auble none 5743
>> snowflake da Danny Auble test_acct 2
> We do have this situation, but I would think for users in this situation
> the sacct usage should always be higher. For the top user in sreport,
> usage is 1214426112 (around 38.5 years), but sacct usage is only
> 1049661568 (around 33.3 years). I be satisfied to know that taking all
> the data from sacct -X and analyzing that will give me valid usage
> results, but the discrepancy between sacct usage and sreport usage makes
> we wonder what is going on.
If you figure it out let us know and we can fix it.
Danny
>
>
>> Danny
>>
>> On 11/29/2012 01:45 PM, Andy Wettstein wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been working on making usage reports, and I'm trying to understand
>>> the difference in cpu time between sreport and sacct -X.
>>>
>>> The sreport user top gives these numbers for cpu time in seconds:
>>>
>>> # sreport -v -t seconds user topusage start=11/01 format=used
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Top 10 Users 2012-11-01T00:00:00 - 2012-11-28T23:59:59 (2422800 secs)
>>> Time reported in CPU Seconds
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Used
>>> ----------
>>> 1214426112
>>> 882260416
>>> 752372859
>>> 701376048
>>> 669655465
>>> 623742128
>>> 502642776
>>> 410485123
>>> 345720864
>>> 281312588
>>>
>>>
>>> If I sum the cputimeraw for each of the top users from sacct, I get
>>> totaly different numbers. I did something like this in the same order
>>> for the users listed in the topusage in sreport:
>>> # sacct -P -u $i -n --starttime 11/01 --allocations --format=cputimeraw |
>>> awk '{ sum+=$1} END {print sum}'
>>>
>>> I get these numbers, some are higher some are lower:
>>>
>>> 1049661568
>>> 430935200
>>> 692175979
>>> 925251632
>>> 505953929
>>> 660265868
>>> 630577080
>>> 458256508
>>> 461598697
>>> 291467484
>>>
>>> I've been trying to figure out what sreport is using to calculate the
>>> numbers, but I haven't been able to follow what is happening. So I am
>>> wondering what the sreport number represents, and if using the sacct
>>> output for stats is a valid method.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Andy
>>>
>>>
