squeue - Man Page

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• View the queue and refresh every 5 seconds: squeue -i 5
• View the queue with expected start times: squeue --start

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squeue [Options...]

squeue is used to view job and job step information for jobs managed by Slurm.

-A,  --account=<account_list>

Specify the accounts of the jobs to view. Accepts a comma separated list of account names. This has no effect when listing job steps.

-a,  --all

Display information about jobs and job steps in all partitions. This causes information to be displayed about partitions that are configured as hidden, partitions that are unavailable to a user's group, and federated jobs that are in a "revoked" state.

-r,  --array

Display one job array element per line. Without this option, the display will be optimized for use with job arrays (pending job array elements will be combined on one line of output with the array index values printed using a regular expression).

--array-unique

Display one unique pending job array element per line. Without this option, the pending job array elements will be grouped into the master array job to optimize the display.  This can also be set with the environment variable SQUEUE_ARRAY_UNIQUE.

-M,  --clusters=<cluster_name>

Clusters to issue commands to.  Multiple cluster names may be comma separated. A value of 'all' will query to run on all clusters. This option implicitly sets the --local option.

--federation

Show jobs from the federation if a member of one.

-o,  --format=<output_format>

Specify the information to be displayed, its size and position (right or left justified). Also see the -O, --Format=<output_format> option described below (which supports less flexibility in formatting, but supports access to all fields). If the command is executed in a federated cluster environment and information about more than one cluster is to be displayed and the -h, --noheader option is used, then the cluster name will be displayed before the default output formats shown below.

The default formats with various options are:

default

"%.18i %.9P %.8j %.8u %.2t %.10M %.6D %R"

-l, --long

"%.18i %.9P %.8j %.8u %.8T %.10M %.9l %.6D %R"

-s, --steps

"%.15i %.8j %.9P %.8u %.9M %N"

The format of each field is "%[[.]size]type[suffix]"

size

Minimum field size. If no size is specified, whatever is needed to print the information will be used.

.

Indicates the output should be right justified and size must be specified. By default output is left justified.

suffix

Arbitrary string to append to the end of the field.

Note that many of these type specifications are valid only for jobs while others are valid only for job steps. Valid type specifications include:

%all

Print all fields available for this data type with a vertical bar separating each field.

%a

Account associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%A

Number of tasks created by a job step. This reports the value of the srun --ntasks option. (Valid for job steps only)

%A

Job id. This will have a unique value for each element of job arrays. (Valid for jobs only)

%B

Executing (batch) host. For an allocated session, this is the host on which the session is executing (i.e. the node from which the srun or the salloc command was executed). For a batch job, this is the node executing the batch script. In the case of a typical Linux cluster, this would be the compute node zero of the allocation. In the case of a Cray ALPS system, this would be the front-end host whose slurmd daemon executes the job script.

%c

Minimum number of CPUs (processors) per node requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --mincpus option with a default value of zero. (Valid for jobs only)

%C

Number of CPUs (processors) requested by the job or allocated to it if already running.  As a job is completing this number will reflect the current number of CPUs allocated. (Valid for jobs only)

%d

Minimum size of temporary disk space (in MB) requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%D

Number of nodes allocated to the job or the minimum number of nodes required by a pending job. The actual number of nodes allocated to a pending job may exceed this number if the job specified a node range count (e.g. minimum and maximum node counts) or the job specifies a processor count instead of a node count. As a job is completing this number will reflect the current number of nodes allocated. (Valid for jobs only)

%e

Time at which the job ended or is expected to end (based upon its time limit). (Valid for jobs only)

%E

Job dependencies remaining. This job will not begin execution until these dependent jobs complete. In the case of a job that can not run due to job dependencies never being satisfied, the full original job dependency specification will be reported. A value of NULL implies this job has no dependencies. (Valid for jobs only)

%f

Features required by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%F

Job array's job ID. This is the base job ID. For non-array jobs, this is the job ID. (Valid for jobs only)

%g

Group name of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%G

Group ID of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%h

Can the compute resources allocated to the job be over subscribed by other jobs. The resources to be over subscribed can be nodes, sockets, cores, or hyperthreads depending upon configuration. The value will be "YES" if the job was submitted with the oversubscribe option or the partition is configured with OverSubscribe=Force, "NO" if the job requires exclusive node access, "USER" if the allocated compute nodes are dedicated to a single user, "MCS" if the allocated compute nodes are dedicated to a single security class (See MCSPlugin and MCSParameters configuration parameters for more information), "OK" otherwise (typically allocated dedicated CPUs), (Valid for jobs only)

%H

Number of sockets per node requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --sockets-per-node option. When --sockets-per-node has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

%i

Job or job step id. In the case of job arrays, the job ID format will be of the form "<base_job_id>_<index>". By default, the job array index field size will be limited to 64 bytes. Use the environment variable SLURM_BITSTR_LEN to specify larger field sizes. (Valid for jobs and job steps) In the case of heterogeneous job allocations, the job ID format will be of the form "#+#" where the first number is the "heterogeneous job leader" and the second number the zero origin offset for each component of the job.

%I

Number of cores per socket requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --cores-per-socket option. When --cores-per-socket has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

%j

Job or job step name. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%J

Number of threads per core requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --threads-per-core option. When --threads-per-core has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

%k

Comment associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%K

Job array index. By default, this field size will be limited to 64 bytes. Use the environment variable SLURM_BITSTR_LEN to specify larger field sizes. (Valid for jobs only)

%l

Time limit of the job or job step in days-hours:minutes:seconds. The value may be "NOT_SET" if not yet established or "UNLIMITED" for no limit. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%L

Time left for the job to execute in days-hours:minutes:seconds. This value is calculated by subtracting the job's time used from its time limit. The value may be "NOT_SET" if not yet established or "UNLIMITED" for no limit. (Valid for jobs only)

%m

Minimum size of memory (in MB) requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%M

Time used by the job or job step in days-hours:minutes:seconds. The days and hours are printed only as needed. For job steps this field shows the elapsed time since execution began and thus will be inaccurate for job steps which have been suspended. Clock skew between nodes in the cluster will cause the time to be inaccurate. If the time is obviously wrong (e.g. negative), it displays as "INVALID". (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%n

List of node names explicitly requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%N

List of nodes allocated to the job or job step. In the case of a COMPLETING job, the list of nodes will comprise only those nodes that have not yet been returned to service. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%o

The command to be executed.

%O

Are contiguous nodes requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%p

Priority of the job (converted to a floating point number between 0.0 and 1.0). Also see %Q. (Valid for jobs only)

%P

Partition of the job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%q

Quality of service associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%Q

Priority of the job (generally a very large unsigned integer). Also see %p. (Valid for jobs only)

%r

The reason a job is in its current state. See the Job Reason Codes section below for more information. (Valid for jobs only)

%R

For pending jobs: the reason a job is waiting for execution is printed within parenthesis. For terminated jobs with failure: an explanation as to why the job failed is printed within parenthesis. For all other job states: the list of allocate nodes. See the Job Reason Codes section below for more information. (Valid for jobs only)

%s

Node selection plugin specific data for a job. Possible data includes: Geometry requirement of resource allocation (X,Y,Z dimensions), Connection type (TORUS, MESH, or NAV == torus else mesh), Permit rotation of geometry (yes or no), Node use (VIRTUAL or COPROCESSOR), etc. (Valid for jobs only)

%S

Actual or expected start time of the job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%t

Job state in compact form. See the Job State Codes section below for a list of possible states. (Valid for jobs only)

%T

Job state in extended form. See the Job State Codes section below for a list of possible states. (Valid for jobs only)

%u

User name for a job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%U

User ID for a job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

%v

Reservation for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%V

The job's submission time.

%w

Workload Characterization Key (wckey). (Valid for jobs only)

%W

Licenses reserved for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%x

List of node names explicitly excluded by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

%X

Count of cores reserved on each node for system use (core specialization). (Valid for jobs only)

%y

Nice value (adjustment to a job's scheduling priority). (Valid for jobs only)

%Y

For pending jobs, a list of the nodes expected to be used when the job is started.

%z

Number of requested sockets, cores, and threads (S:C:T) per node for the job. When (S:C:T) has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

%Z

The job's working directory.

-O,  --Format=<output_format>

Specify the information to be displayed. Also see the -o, --format=<output_format> option described above (which supports greater flexibility in formatting, but does not support access to all fields because we ran out of letters). Requests a comma separated list of job information to be displayed.

The format of each field is "type[:[.][size][sufix]]"

size

Minimum field size. If no size is specified, 20 characters will be allocated to print the information.

.

Indicates the output should be right justified and size must be specified. By default output is left justified.

sufix

Arbitrary string to append to the end of the field.

Note that many of these type specifications are valid only for jobs while others are valid only for job steps. Valid type specifications include:

Account

Print the account associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

AccrueTime

Print the accrue time associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

admin_comment

Administrator comment associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

AllocNodes

Print the nodes allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

AllocSID

Print the session ID used to submit the job. (Valid for jobs only)

ArrayJobID

Prints the job ID of the job array. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

ArrayTaskID

Prints the task ID of the job array. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

AssocID

Prints the ID of the job association. (Valid for jobs only)

BatchFlag

Prints whether the batch flag has been set. (Valid for jobs only)

BatchHost

Executing (batch) host. For an allocated session, this is the host on which the session is executing (i.e. the node from which the srun or the salloc command was executed). For a batch job, this is the node executing the batch script. In the case of a typical Linux cluster, this would be the compute node zero of the allocation. In the case of a Cray ALPS system, this would be the front-end host whose slurmd daemon executes the job script. (Valid for jobs only)

BoardsPerNode

Prints the number of boards per node allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

BurstBuffer

Burst Buffer specification (Valid for jobs only)

BurstBufferState

Burst Buffer state (Valid for jobs only)

Cluster

Name of the cluster that is running the job or job step.

ClusterFeature

Cluster features required by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Command

The command to be executed. (Valid for jobs only)

Comment

Comment associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Contiguous

Are contiguous nodes requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Container

OCI container bundle path.

Cores

Number of cores per socket requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --cores-per-socket option. When --cores-per-socket has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

CoreSpec

Count of cores reserved on each node for system use (core specialization). (Valid for jobs only)

CPUFreq

Prints the frequency of the allocated CPUs. (Valid for job steps only)

cpus-per-task

Prints the number of CPUs per tasks allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

cpus-per-tres

Print the memory required per trackable resources allocated to the job or job step.

Deadline

Prints the deadline affected to the job (Valid for jobs only)

DelayBoot

Delay boot time. (Valid for jobs only)

Dependency

Job dependencies remaining. This job will not begin execution until these dependent jobs complete. In the case of a job that can not run due to job dependencies never being satisfied, the full original job dependency specification will be reported. A value of NULL implies this job has no dependencies. (Valid for jobs only)

DerivedEC

Derived exit code for the job, which is the highest exit code of any job step. (Valid for jobs only)

EligibleTime

Time the job is eligible for running. (Valid for jobs only)

EndTime

The time of job termination, actual or expected. (Valid for jobs only)

exit_code

The exit code for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Feature

Features required by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

GroupID

Group ID of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

GroupName

Group name of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

HetJobID

Job ID of the heterogeneous job leader.

HetJobIDSet

Expression identifying all components job IDs within a heterogeneous job.

HetJobOffset

Zero origin offset within a collection of heterogeneous job components.

JobArrayID

Job array's job ID. This is the base job ID. For non-array jobs, this is the job ID. (Valid for jobs only)

JobID

Job ID. This will have a unique value for each element of job arrays and each component of heterogeneous jobs. (Valid for jobs only)

LastSchedEval

Prints the last time the job was evaluated for scheduling. (Valid for jobs only)

Licenses

Licenses reserved for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

MaxCPUs

Prints the max number of CPUs allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

MaxNodes

Prints the max number of nodes allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

MCSLabel

Prints the MCS_label of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

mem-per-tres

Print the memory (in MB) required per trackable resources allocated to the job or job step.

MinCpus

Minimum number of CPUs (processors) per node requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --mincpus option with a default value of zero. (Valid for jobs only)

MinMemory

Minimum size of memory (in MB) requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

MinTime

Minimum time limit of the job (Valid for jobs only)

MinTmpDisk

Minimum size of temporary disk space (in MB) requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Name

Job or job step name. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

Network

The network that the job is running on. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

Nice

Nice value (adjustment to a job's scheduling priority). (Valid for jobs only)

NodeList

List of nodes allocated to the job or job step. In the case of a COMPLETING job, the list of nodes will comprise only those nodes that have not yet been returned to service. (Valid for jobs only)

Nodes

List of nodes allocated to the job or job step. In the case of a COMPLETING job, the list of nodes will comprise only those nodes that have not yet been returned to service. (Valid job steps only)

NTPerBoard

The number of tasks per board allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

NTPerCore

The number of tasks per core allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

NTPerNode

The number of tasks per node allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

NTPerSocket

The number of tasks per socket allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

NumCPUs

Number of CPUs (processors) requested by the job or allocated to it if already running.  As a job is completing, this number will reflect the current number of CPUs allocated. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

NumNodes

Number of nodes allocated to the job or the minimum number of nodes required by a pending job. The actual number of nodes allocated to a pending job may exceed this number if the job specified a node range count (e.g. minimum and maximum node counts) or the job specifies a processor count instead of a node count. As a job is completing this number will reflect the current number of nodes allocated. (Valid for jobs only)

NumTasks

Number of tasks requested by a job or job step. This reports the value of the --ntasks option. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

Origin

Cluster name where federated job originated from. (Valid for federated jobs only)

OriginRaw

Cluster ID where federated job originated from. (Valid for federated jobs only)

OverSubscribe

Can the compute resources allocated to the job be over subscribed by other jobs. The resources to be over subscribed can be nodes, sockets, cores, or hyperthreads depending upon configuration. The value will be "YES" if the job was submitted with the oversubscribe option or the partition is configured with OverSubscribe=Force, "NO" if the job requires exclusive node access, "USER" if the allocated compute nodes are dedicated to a single user, "MCS" if the allocated compute nodes are dedicated to a single security class (See MCSPlugin and MCSParameters configuration parameters for more information), "OK" otherwise (typically allocated dedicated CPUs), (Valid for jobs only)

Partition

Partition of the job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

PendingTime

The time (in seconds) between start time and submit time of the job. If the job has not started yet, then the time (in seconds) between now and the submit time of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

PreemptTime

The preempt time for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Prefer

The preferred features of a pending job. (Valid for jobs only)

Priority

Priority of the job (converted to a floating point number between 0.0 and 1.0). Also see prioritylong. (Valid for jobs only)

PriorityLong

Priority of the job (generally a very large unsigned integer). Also see priority. (Valid for jobs only)

Profile

Profile of the job. (Valid for jobs only)

QOS

Quality of service associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Reason

The reason a job is in its current state. See the Job Reason Codes section below for more information. (Valid for jobs only)

ReasonList

For pending jobs: the reason a job is waiting for execution is printed within parenthesis. For terminated jobs with failure: an explanation as to why the job failed is printed within parenthesis. For all other job states: the list of allocate nodes. See the Job Reason Codes section below for more information. (Valid for jobs only)

Reboot

Indicates if the allocated nodes should be rebooted before starting the job. (Valid on jobs only)

ReqNodes

List of node names explicitly requested by the job. (Valid for jobs only)

ReqSwitch

The max number of requested switches by for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Requeue

Prints whether the job will be requeued on failure. (Valid for jobs only)

Reservation

Reservation for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

ResizeTime

The amount of time changed for the job to run. (Valid for jobs only)

RestartCnt

The number of restarts for the job. (Valid for jobs only)

ResvPort

Reserved ports of the job. (Valid for job steps only)

SchedNodes

For pending jobs, a list of the nodes expected to be used when the job is started. (Valid for jobs only)

SCT

Number of requested sockets, cores, and threads (S:C:T) per node for the job. When (S:C:T) has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

SelectJobInfo

Node selection plugin specific data for a job. Possible data includes: Geometry requirement of resource allocation (X,Y,Z dimensions), Connection type (TORUS, MESH, or NAV == torus else mesh), Permit rotation of geometry (yes or no), Node use (VIRTUAL or COPROCESSOR), etc. (Valid for jobs only)

SiblingsActive

Cluster names of where federated sibling jobs exist. (Valid for federated jobs only)

SiblingsActiveRaw

Cluster IDs of where federated sibling jobs exist. (Valid for federated jobs only)

SiblingsViable

Cluster names of where federated sibling jobs are viable to run. (Valid for federated jobs only)

SiblingsViableRaw

Cluster IDs of where federated sibling jobs viable to run. (Valid for federated jobs only)

Sockets

Number of sockets per node requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --sockets-per-node option. When --sockets-per-node has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

SPerBoard

Number of sockets per board allocated to the job. (Valid for jobs only)

StartTime

Actual or expected start time of the job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

State

Job state in extended form. See the Job State Codes section below for a list of possible states. (Valid for jobs only)

StateCompact

Job state in compact form. See the Job State Codes section below for a list of possible states. (Valid for jobs only)

STDERR

The directory for standard error to output to. (Valid for jobs only)

STDIN

The directory for standard in. (Valid for jobs only)

STDOUT

The directory for standard out to output to. (Valid for jobs only)

StepID

Job or job step ID. In the case of job arrays, the job ID format will be of the form "<base_job_id>_<index>". (Valid forjob steps only)

StepName

Job step name. (Valid for job steps only)

StepState

The state of the job step. (Valid for job steps only)

SubmitTime

The time that the job was submitted at. (Valid for jobs only)

system_comment

System comment associated with the job. (Valid for jobs only)

Threads

Number of threads per core requested by the job. This reports the value of the srun --threads-per-core option. When --threads-per-core has not been set, "*" is displayed. (Valid for jobs only)

TimeLeft

Time left for the job to execute in days-hours:minutes:seconds. This value is calculated by subtracting the job's time used from its time limit. The value may be "NOT_SET" if not yet established or "UNLIMITED" for no limit. (Valid for jobs only)

TimeLimit

Timelimit for the job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

TimeUsed

Time used by the job or job step in days-hours:minutes:seconds. The days and hours are printed only as needed. For job steps this field shows the elapsed time since execution began and thus will be inaccurate for job steps which have been suspended. Clock skew between nodes in the cluster will cause the time to be inaccurate. If the time is obviously wrong (e.g. negative), it displays as "INVALID". (Valid for jobs and job steps)

tres-alloc

Print the trackable resources allocated to the job if running. If not running, then print the trackable resources requested by the job.

tres-bind

Print the trackable resources task binding requested by the job or job step.

tres-freq

Print the trackable resources frequencies requested by the job or job step.

tres-per-job

Print the trackable resources requested by the job.

tres-per-node

Print the trackable resources per node requested by the job or job step.

tres-per-socket

Print the trackable resources per socket requested by the job or job step.

tres-per-step

Print the trackable resources requested by the job step.

tres-per-task

Print the trackable resources per task requested by the job or job step.

UserID

User ID for a job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

UserName

User name for a job or job step. (Valid for jobs and job steps)

Wait4Switch

The amount of time to wait for the desired number of switches. (Valid for jobs only)

WCKey

Workload Characterization Key (wckey). (Valid for jobs only)

WorkDir

The job's working directory. (Valid for jobs only)

--help

Print a help message describing all options squeue.

--hide

Do not display information about jobs and job steps in all partitions. By default, information about partitions that are configured as hidden or are not available to the user's group will not be displayed (i.e. this is the default behavior).

-i,  --iterate=<seconds>

Repeatedly gather and report the requested information at the interval specified (in seconds). By default, prints a time stamp with the header.

-j,  --jobs=<job_id_list>

Requests a comma separated list of job IDs to display.  Defaults to all jobs. The --jobs=<job_id_list> option may be used in conjunction with the --steps option to print step information about specific jobs. Note: If a list of job IDs is provided, the jobs are displayed even if they are on hidden partitions. Since this option's argument is optional, for proper parsing the single letter option must be followed immediately with the value and not include a space between them. For example "-j1008" and not "-j 1008". The job ID format is "job_id[_array_id]". Performance of the command can be measurably improved for systems with large numbers of jobs when a single job ID is specified. By default, this field size will be limited to 64 bytes. Use the environment variable SLURM_BITSTR_LEN to specify larger field sizes.

--json

Dump job information as JSON. All other formatting and filtering arguments will be ignored.

-L,  --licenses=<license_list>

Request jobs requesting or using one or more of the named licenses. The license list consists of a comma separated list of license names.

--local

Show only jobs local to this cluster. Ignore other clusters in this federation (if any). Overrides --federation.

-l,  --long

Report more of the available information for the selected jobs or job steps, subject to any constraints specified.

--me

Equivalent to --user=<my username>.

-n,  --name=<name_list>

Request jobs or job steps having one of the specified names.  The list consists of a comma separated list of job names.

--noconvert

Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to 2G).

-w,  --nodelist=<hostlist>

Report only on jobs allocated to the specified node or list of nodes. This may either be the NodeName or NodeHostname as defined in slurm.conf(5) in the event that they differ. A node_name of localhost is mapped to the current host name.

-h,  --noheader

Do not print a header on the output.

-p,  --partition=<part_list>

Specify the partitions of the jobs or steps to view. Accepts a comma separated list of partition names.

-P,  --priority

For pending jobs submitted to multiple partitions, list the job once per partition. In addition, if jobs are sorted by priority, consider both the partition and job priority. This option can be used to produce a list of pending jobs in the same order considered for scheduling by Slurm with appropriate additional options (e.g. "--sort=-p,i --states=PD").

-q,  --qos=<qos_list>

Specify the qos(s) of the jobs or steps to view. Accepts a comma separated list of qos's.

-R,  --reservation=<reservation_name>

Specify the reservation of the jobs to view.

--sibling

Show all sibling jobs on a federated cluster. Implies --federation.

-S,  --sort=<sort_list>

Specification of the order in which records should be reported. This uses the same field specification as the <output_format>. The long format option "cluster" can also be used to sort jobs or job steps by cluster name (e.g. federated jobs). Multiple sorts may be performed by listing multiple sort fields separated by commas. The field specifications may be preceded by "+" or "-" for ascending (default) and descending order respectively. For example, a sort value of "P,U" will sort the records by partition name then by user id. The default value of sort for jobs is "P,t,-p" (increasing partition name then within a given partition by increasing job state and then decreasing priority). The default value of sort for job steps is "P,i" (increasing partition name then within a given partition by increasing step id).

--start

Report the expected start time and resources to be allocated for pending jobs in order of increasing start time. This is equivalent to the following options: --format="%.18i %.9P %.8j %.8u %.2t  %.19S %.6D %20Y %R", --sort=S and --states=PENDING. Any of these options may be explicitly changed as desired by combining the --start option with other option values (e.g. to use a different output format). The expected start time of pending jobs is only available if the Slurm is configured to use the backfill scheduling plugin.

-t,  --states=<state_list>

Specify the states of jobs to view.  Accepts a comma separated list of state names or "all". If "all" is specified then jobs of all states will be reported. If no state is specified then pending, running, and completing jobs are reported. See the Job State Codes section below for a list of valid states. Both extended and compact forms are valid. Note the <state_list> supplied is case insensitive ("pd" and "PD" are equivalent).

-s,  --steps

Specify the job steps to view.  This flag indicates that a comma separated list of job steps to view follows without an equal sign (see examples). The job step format is "job_id[_array_id].step_id". Defaults to all job steps. Since this option's argument is optional, for proper parsing the single letter option must be followed immediately with the value and not include a space between them. For example "-s1008.0" and not "-s 1008.0".

--usage

Print a brief help message listing the squeue options.

-u,  --user=<user_list>

Request jobs or job steps from a comma separated list of users. The list can consist of user names or user id numbers. Performance of the command can be measurably improved for systems with large numbers of jobs when a single user is specified.

-v,  --verbose

Report details of squeues actions.

-V , --version

Print version information and exit.

--yaml

Dump job information as YAML. All other formatting and filtering arguments will be ignored.

These codes identify the reason that a job is waiting for execution. A job may be waiting for more than one reason, in which case only one of those reasons is displayed.

The Reasons listed below are some of the more common ones you might see. For a full list of Reason codes see our Resource Limits page: <https://slurm.schedmd.com/resource_limits.html>

AssocGrp*Limit

The job's association has reached an aggregate limit on some resource.

AssociationJobLimit

The job's association has reached its maximum job count.

AssocMax*Limit

The job requests a resource that violates a per-job limit on the requested association.

AssociationResourceLimit

The job's association has reached some resource limit.

AssociationTimeLimit

The job's association has reached its time limit.

BadConstraints

The job's constraints can not be satisfied.

BeginTime

The job's earliest start time has not yet been reached.

Cleaning

The job is being requeued and still cleaning up from its previous execution.

Dependency

This job has a dependency on another job that has not been satisfied.

DependencyNeverSatisfied

This job has a dependency on another job that will never be satisfied.

FrontEndDown

No front end node is available to execute this job.

InactiveLimit

The job reached the system InactiveLimit.

InvalidAccount

The job's account is invalid.

InvalidQOS

The job's QOS is invalid.

JobHeldAdmin

The job is held by a system administrator.

JobHeldUser

The job is held by the user.

JobLaunchFailure

The job could not be launched. This may be due to a file system problem, invalid program name, etc.

Licenses

The job is waiting for a license.

NodeDown

A node required by the job is down.

NonZeroExitCode

The job terminated with a non-zero exit code.

PartitionDown

The partition required by this job is in a DOWN state.

PartitionInactive

The partition required by this job is in an Inactive state and not able to start jobs.

PartitionNodeLimit

The number of nodes required by this job is outside of its partition's current limits. Can also indicate that required nodes are DOWN or DRAINED.

PartitionTimeLimit

The job's time limit exceeds its partition's current time limit.

Priority

One or more higher priority jobs exist for this partition or advanced reservation.

Prolog

Its PrologSlurmctld program is still running.

QOSGrp*Limit

The job's QOS has reached an aggregate limit on some resource.

QOSJobLimit

The job's QOS has reached its maximum job count.

QOSMax*Limit

The job requests a resource that violates a per-job limit on the requested QOS.

QOSResourceLimit

The job's QOS has reached some resource limit.

QOSTimeLimit

The job's QOS has reached its time limit.

QOSUsageThreshold

Required QOS threshold has been breached.

ReqNodeNotAvail

Some node specifically required by the job is not currently available. The node may currently be in use, reserved for another job, in an advanced reservation, DOWN, DRAINED, or not responding. Nodes which are DOWN, DRAINED, or not responding will be identified as part of the job's "reason" field as "UnavailableNodes". Such nodes will typically require the intervention of a system administrator to make available.

Reservation

The job is waiting its advanced reservation to become available.

Resources

The job is waiting for resources to become available.

SystemFailure

Failure of the Slurm system, a file system, the network, etc.

TimeLimit

The job exhausted its time limit.

WaitingForScheduling

No reason has been set for this job yet. Waiting for the scheduler to determine the appropriate reason.

Jobs typically pass through several states in the course of their execution. The typical states are PENDING, RUNNING, SUSPENDED, COMPLETING, and COMPLETED. An explanation of each state follows.

BF  BOOT_FAIL

Job terminated due to launch failure, typically due to a hardware failure (e.g. unable to boot the node or block and the job can not be requeued).

CA  CANCELLED

Job was explicitly cancelled by the user or system administrator. The job may or may not have been initiated.

CD  COMPLETED

Job has terminated all processes on all nodes with an exit code of zero.

CF  CONFIGURING

Job has been allocated resources, but are waiting for them to become ready for use (e.g. booting).

CG  COMPLETING

Job is in the process of completing. Some processes on some nodes may still be active.

DL  DEADLINE

Job terminated on deadline.

F   FAILED

Job terminated with non-zero exit code or other failure condition.

NF  NODE_FAIL

Job terminated due to failure of one or more allocated nodes.

OOM OUT_OF_MEMORY

Job experienced out of memory error.

PD  PENDING

Job is awaiting resource allocation.

PR  PREEMPTED

Job terminated due to preemption.

R   RUNNING

Job currently has an allocation.

RD  RESV_DEL_HOLD

Job is being held after requested reservation was deleted.

RF  REQUEUE_FED

Job is being requeued by a federation.

RH  REQUEUE_HOLD

Held job is being requeued.

RQ  REQUEUED

Completing job is being requeued.

RS  RESIZING

Job is about to change size.

RV  REVOKED

Sibling was removed from cluster due to other cluster starting the job.

SI  SIGNALING

Job is being signaled.

SE  SPECIAL_EXIT

The job was requeued in a special state. This state can be set by users, typically in EpilogSlurmctld, if the job has terminated with a particular exit value.

SO  STAGE_OUT

Job is staging out files.

ST  STOPPED

Job has an allocation, but execution has been stopped with SIGSTOP signal. CPUS have been retained by this job.

S   SUSPENDED

Job has an allocation, but execution has been suspended and CPUs have been released for other jobs.

TO  TIMEOUT

Job terminated upon reaching its time limit.

Executing squeue sends a remote procedure call to slurmctld. If enough calls from squeue or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmctld daemon come in at once, it can result in a degradation of performance of the slurmctld daemon, possibly resulting in a denial of service.

Do not run squeue or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to slurmctld from loops in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls to squeue to the minimum necessary for the information you are trying to gather.

Some squeue options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their corresponding options, are listed below. (Note: Command line options will always override these settings.)

SLURM_BITSTR_LEN

Specifies the string length to be used for holding a job array's task ID expression. The default value is 64 bytes. A value of 0 will print the full expression with any length required. Larger values may adversely impact the application performance.

SLURM_CLUSTERS

Same as --clusters

SLURM_CONF

The location of the Slurm configuration file.

SLURM_TIME_FORMAT

Specify the format used to report time stamps. A value of standard, the default value, generates output in the form "year-month-dateThour:minute:second". A value of relative returns only "hour:minute:second" if the current day. For other dates in the current year it prints the "hour:minute" preceded by "Tomorr" (tomorrow), "Ystday" (yesterday), the name of the day for the coming week (e.g. "Mon", "Tue", etc.), otherwise the date (e.g. "25 Apr"). For other years it returns a date month and year without a time (e.g. "6 Jun 2012"). All of the time stamps use a 24 hour format.

A valid strftime() format can also be specified. For example, a value of "%a %T" will report the day of the week and a time stamp (e.g. "Mon 12:34:56").

SQUEUE_ACCOUNT

-A <account_list>, --account=<account_list>

SQUEUE_ALL

-a, --all

SQUEUE_ARRAY

-r, --array

SQUEUE_NAMES

--name=<name_list>

SQUEUE_FEDERATION

--federation

SQUEUE_FORMAT

-o <output_format>, --format=<output_format>

SQUEUE_FORMAT2

-O <output_format>, --Format=<output_format>

SQUEUE_LICENSES

-p-l <license_list>, --license=<license_list>

SQUEUE_LOCAL

--local

SQUEUE_PARTITION

-p <part_list>, --partition=<part_list>

SQUEUE_PRIORITY

-P, --priority

SQUEUE_QOS

-p <qos_list>, --qos=<qos_list>

SQUEUE_SIBLING

--sibling

SQUEUE_SORT

-S <sort_list>, --sort=<sort_list>

SQUEUE_STATES

-t <state_list>, --states=<state_list>

SQUEUE_USERS

-u <user_list>, --users=<user_list>

Print the jobs scheduled in the debug partition and in the COMPLETED state in the format with six right justified digits for the job id followed by the priority with an arbitrary fields size:

$ squeue -p debug -t COMPLETED -o "%.6i %p"
 JOBID PRIORITY
 65543 99993
 65544 99992
 65545 99991

Print the job steps in the debug partition sorted by user:

$ squeue -s -p debug -S u
  STEPID        NAME PARTITION     USER      TIME NODELIST
 65552.1       test1     debug    alice      0:23 dev[1-4]
 65562.2     big_run     debug      bob      0:18 dev22
 65550.1      param1     debug  candice   1:43:21 dev[6-12]

Print information only about jobs 12345, 12346 and 12348:

$ squeue --jobs 12345,12346,12348
 JOBID PARTITION NAME USER ST  TIME  NODES NODELIST(REASON)
 12345     debug job1 dave  R   0:21     4 dev[9-12]
 12346     debug job2 dave PD   0:00     8 (Resources)
 12348     debug job3 ed   PD   0:00     4 (Priority)

Print information only about job step 65552.1:

$ squeue --steps 65552.1
  STEPID     NAME PARTITION    USER    TIME  NODELIST
 65552.1    test2     debug   alice   12:49  dev[1-4]

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scancel(1), scontrol(1), sinfo(1), srun(1), slurm_load_ctl_conf (3), slurm_load_jobs (3), slurm_load_node (3), slurm_load_partitions (3)

sacct(1), salloc(1), sattach(1), sbatch(1), scontrol(1), scrontab(1), sdiag(1), sinfo(1), slurm(1), sprio(1), srun(1), strigger(1), sview(1).