Useful SLURM Commands
Created by Potthoff, Sebastian, last modified on 19. Dec 2023
| Task |
Command |
| List all jobs for a user |
squeue --me |
| List all running jobs for a user |
squeue --me -t RUNNING |
| List all pending jobs for a user |
squeue --me -t PENDING |
| List all current jobs in the normal partition for a user |
squeue --me -p normal |
| List detailed information for a job (useful for troubleshooting) |
scontrol show job -dd <jobid> |
Only available after a job has completed
| Task |
Command |
| To get statistics on completed jobs by jobID |
sacct -j <jobid> --format=JobID,JobName,MaxRSS,Elapsed |
| To view the same information for all jobs of a user |
sacct -u <username> --format=JobID,JobName,MaxRSS,Elapsed |
| Show priorities for waiting jobs |
sprio -l |
Controlling Jobs
| Task |
Command |
| To cancel one job |
scancel <jobid> |
| To cancel all the jobs for a user |
scancel -u <username> |
| To cancel all the pending jobs for a user |
scancel -t PENDING -u <username> |
| To cancel one or more jobs by name |
scancel --name myJobName |
| To pause a particular job |
scontrol hold <jobid> |
| To resume a particular job |
scontrol resume <jobid> |
| To requeue (cancel and rerun) a particular job |
scontrol requeue <jobid> |