On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 03:41:07PM +0000, Mun Johl wrote: > Hi Skyler, Reuti, > > Thank you for your reply. > Please see my comments below. > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:03 AM PDT, Reuti wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > Am 25.04.2019 um 16:53 schrieb Mun Johl <mun.j...@kazan-networks.com>: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm using 'qacct -P' in the hope of tracking metrics on a per project > > > basis. I am getting data out of qacct, however I don't fully comprehend > > > what the data is trying to tell me. > > > > > > I've searched the man pages and web for definitions of the output of > > > qacct, but I have not been able to find a complete reference (just bits > > > and pieces here and there). > > > > > > Can anyone point me to a complete reference so that I can better > > > understand the output of qacct? > > > > There is a man page about it: > > > > man accounting > > Well, I _did_ look at that prior to posting but I guess I just didn't > see the keywords I was looking for. So maybe I'll just ask the specific > questions regarding my confusion. > > WALLCLOCK is pretty well defined by ru_wallclock. So that's basically > the total wall clock time the job was on the execution host. > > UTIME is user time used. > STIME is system time used. > > Should (UTIME + STIME) >= WALLCLOCK? It isn't in my case and is mainly > why I am confused. Or perhaps process wait time is not included?
It's going to depend on your operating system, but STIME tends to include I/O wait. Note, though, that user and system time are measured in terms of CPU time: parallel jobs should exceed wallclock time because they're taking advantage of multiple processors. -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
