HP XC System 4.x Software manual Terminating Jobs with the scancel Command

Example 9-2 Displaying Queued Jobs by Their JobIDs

$ squeue --jobs 12345,12346
JOBID PARTITION NAME USER			ST TIME_USED NODES			NODELIST(REASON)
12345	debug	job1 jody	R	0:21	4	n[9-12]
12346	debug	job2 jody	PD	0:00	8

The squeue command can report on jobs in the job queue according to their state; possible states are: pending, running, completing, completed, failed, timeout, and node_fail. Example 9-3uses the squeue command to report on failed jobs.

Example 9-3 Reporting on Failed Jobs in the Queue

$ squeue --state=FAILED
JOBID	PARTITION	NAME	USER	ST	TIME	NODES	NODELIST(REASON)
59	amt1	hostname	root	F	0:00	0

9.5 Terminating Jobs with the scancel Command

The scancel command cancels a pending or running job or job step. It can also be used to send a specified signal to all processes on all nodes associated with a job. Only job owners or administrators can cancel jobs.

Example 9-4terminates job #415 and all its jobsteps.

Example 9-4 Terminating a Job by Its JobID

$ scancel 415

Example 9-5cancels all pending jobs.

Example 9-5 Cancelling All Pending Jobs

$ scancel --state=PENDING

Example 9-6sends the TERM signal to terminate jobsteps 421.2 and 421.3.

Example 9-6 Sending a Signal to a Job

$ scancel --signal=TERM 421.2 421.3

9.6 Getting System Information with the sinfo Command

The sinfo command reports the state of partitions and nodes managed by SLURM. It has a wide variety of filtering, sorting, and formatting options. The sinfo command displays a summary of available partition and node (not job) information, such as partition names, nodes/partition, and cores/node.

Example 9-7 Using the sinfo Command (No Options)

$ sinfo
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES				STATE	NODELIST
lsf	up	infinite	3	down*	n[0,5,8]
lsf	up	infinite	14	idle	n[1-4,6-7,9-16]

The node STATE codes in these examples may be appended by an asterisk character (*) ; this indicates that the reported node is not responding. See the sinfo(1) manpage for a complete listing and description of STATE codes.

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