Hi Reuti and Skylar, Sorry for misspelling your name last time, Skylar.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 08:56 AM PDT, Reuti wrote: > > Am 25.04.2019 um 17:41 schrieb Mun Johl <mun.j...@kazan-networks.com>: > > > > 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? > > You mean in case of a parallel application? You set "accounting_summary" to > "true" and get only a single record back? > > This depends how the used CPU time is acquired by the OS (and whether all > created processes are taken into account, even if they jump out of the > process tree [like with `setsid`]). More reliable is the CPU time collected > by SGE by the additional group ID. Actually, we aren't running a parallel application yet. I think the answers you two have provided satisfies my confusion. I mainly just need to know the wallclock time spent per project. Thank you again for your informative and quick replies. Regards, -- Mun _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
