qstat and long job names

Question

How can I get qstat to give me full job names?

I know qstat -r gives detailed information about the task, but it's too much and the resource requirements are included.

The qstat -r output is like:

 131806 0.25001 tumor_foca ajalali      qw    09/29/2014 15:49:41                                    1 2-100:1
       Full jobname:     tumor_focality-TCGA-THCA-ratboost_linear_svc
       Hard Resources:   distribution=wheezy (0.000000)
                         h_rt=72000 (0.000000)
                         mem_free=15G (0.000000)
                         h_vmem=15G (0.000000)
                         h_stack=256M (0.000000)
       Soft Resources:   
 131807 0.25001 vital_stat ajalali      qw    09/29/2014 15:49:41                                    1 2-100:1
       Full jobname:     vital_status-TCGA-LGG-ratboost_linear_svc
       Hard Resources:   distribution=wheezy (0.000000)
                         h_rt=72000 (0.000000)
                         mem_free=15G (0.000000)
                         h_vmem=15G (0.000000)
                         h_stack=256M (0.000000)
       Soft Resources:   

Right now my only option is to grep the output as I need:

$ qstat -r | grep "Full jobname" -B1
--
 131806 0.25001 tumor_foca ajalali      qw    09/29/2014 15:49:41                                    1 2-100:1
       Full jobname:     tumor_focality-TCGA-THCA-ratboost_linear_svc
--
 131807 0.25001 vital_stat ajalali      qw    09/29/2014 15:49:41                                    1 2-100:1
       Full jobname:     vital_status-TCGA-LGG-ratboost_linear_svc

Can I do it better to have a nicer output?

Answer 1

A poor KISS solution :

qstat -xml -f -u \* | fgrep JB_name | wc -l

Answer 2

For me the script of Physical Chemist didn't work so I wrote a very simple script using the xml.tree.ElementTree module which i regard as somewhat easier than xml.dom.minidom

import os
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
f = os.popen('qstat -x')
tree = ET.parse(f)
root = tree.getroot()
print "Job_Id   walltime state     nodes       Job_Name"
print "------   -------- ----- --------------- --------------------------"
for job in root:
    print job.find('Job_Id').text, " ",
    print job.find('resources_used').find('walltime').text, " ",
    print job.find('job_state').text, " ",
    print job.find('Resource_List').find('nodes').text, " ",
    print job.find('Job_Name').text

Answer 3

This script works pretty well. It looks like it is from cambridge. http://www.hep.ph.ic.ac.uk/~dbauer/grid/myqstat.py

For Python 3:

#!/usr/bin/python
import xml.dom.minidom
import os
import sys
import string    

f=os.popen('qstat -u \* -xml -r')

dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(f)


jobs=dom.getElementsByTagName('job_info')
run=jobs[0]

runjobs=run.getElementsByTagName('job_list')


def fakeqstat(joblist):
    for r in joblist:
        try:
            jobname=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_name')[0].childNodes[0].data
            jobown=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_owner')[0].childNodes[0].data
            jobstate=r.getElementsByTagName('state')[0].childNodes[0].data
            jobnum=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_job_number')[0].childNodes[0].data
            jobtime='not set'
            if(jobstate=='r'):
                jobtime=r.getElementsByTagName('JAT_start_time')[0].childNodes[0].data
            elif(jobstate=='dt'):
                jobtime=r.getElementsByTagName('JAT_start_time')[0].childNodes[0].data
            else:
                jobtime=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_submission_time')[0].childNodes[0].data

            print(jobnum, '\t', jobown.ljust(16), '\t', jobname.ljust(16),'\t', jobstate,'\t',jobtime)
        except Exception as e:
            print(e)

fakeqstat(runjobs)

For Python 2:

#!/usr/bin/python
import xml.dom.minidom
import os
import sys
import string
#import re


f=os.popen('qstat -u \* -xml -r')

dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(f)


jobs=dom.getElementsByTagName('job_info')
run=jobs[0]

runjobs=run.getElementsByTagName('job_list')


def fakeqstat(joblist):
        for r in joblist:
                jobname=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_name')[0].childNodes[0].data
                jobown=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_owner')[0].childNodes[0].data
                jobstate=r.getElementsByTagName('state')[0].childNodes[0].data
                jobnum=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_job_number')[0].childNodes[0].data
                jobtime='not set'
                if(jobstate=='r'):
                        jobtime=r.getElementsByTagName('JAT_start_time')[0].childNodes[0].data
                elif(jobstate=='dt'):
                        jobtime=r.getElementsByTagName('JAT_start_time')[0].childNodes[0].data
                else:
                        jobtime=r.getElementsByTagName('JB_submission_time')[0].childNodes[0].data



                print  jobnum, '\t', jobown.ljust(16), '\t', jobname.ljust(16),'\t', jobstate,'\t',jobtime


fakeqstat(runjobs)

Answer 4

Maybe an easier solution: set SGE_LONG_JOB_NAMES to -1, and qstat will figure out the size of the name column:

export SGE_LONG_JOB_NAMES=-1
qstat -u username

Works for me.

Cheers!

Answer 5

I am currently writing my own qstat wrapper in order to get a clean, useful and customizable output.

Here is the github repository. The project has grown too much for the code to be pasted in this message.

It comes with an installer and should work without any problem with both Python 2.7 and 3 (the installation script makes the modifications if needed). qjobs -h provides some help on the available options. I will write a more complete documentation in the following days on the github wiki.

I will update this message as often as possible to stick to the current state of the project. Please feel free to comment here (or on github) to ask for features/report problems.

In the near future, I will try to add a fully interactive mode to browse the job list more easily. Of course, the classic text output will be still available (it could be useful to e-mail the output, or for a quick check of the pending/running jobs).

Example output

Command qjobs gives:

5599109   short_name        r    2015-06-25 10:27:39   queue1
5599110   jobName           r    2015-06-25 10:35:39   queue2
5599111   a_long_job_name   qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599112   foo               qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599113   bar               qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599114   baz               qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39
5599115   beer              qw   2015-06-25 10:40:39

tot: 7

r: 2   qw: 5

Command qjobs -o gives:

tot: 7

r: 2   qw: 5

Command qjobs -o inek -t gives (e is elapsed time since start/sub time, the format is customizable using the Format Spec. Mini-Language of Python; k is complete queue name, with domain):

5598985   SpongeBob        522:02 (21.75 days)   [e-mail]
5598987   ping_java        521:47 (21.74 days)   [e-mail]
5598988   run3.14          521:46 (21.74 days)   [e-mail]
5598990   strange_job_42   521:42 (21.74 days)   [e-mail]
5598991   coffee-maker     521:39 (21.74 days)   [e-mail]
5598992   dumbtask         521:29 (21.73 days)   [e-mail]

qjobs -i gives a complete list of the available 'items'. Each of this item is available as:

• a column output (with -o ITEMS);
• as a criteria to count the job and produces total output, with -t (e.g. -t s to count by state as in the two first examples);
• as a criteria to sort the job with -s, default is -s ips meaning that the job list is sorted by ID, then by priority and finally by state before being printed.

The result of qjobs -i is:

i: job id
p: job priority
n: job name
o: job owner
s: job state
t: job start/submission time
e: elapsed time since start/submission
q: queue name without domain
d: queue domain
k: queue name with domain
r: requested queue(s)
l: number of slots used

Answer 6

This on is a bit messy, but it works as a simple solution to have in the command history. All standard tools. Output is pretty much the same as what you get from a normal qstat call, but you won't get the headers:

One-liner:

qstat -xml | tr '\n' ' ' | sed 's#<job_list[^>]*>#\n#g' \
  | sed 's#<[^>]*>##g' | grep " " | column -t

Description of commands:

List jobs as XML:

qstat -xml

Remove all newlines:

tr '\n' ' '

Add newline before each job entry in the list:

sed 's#<job_list[^>]*>#\n#g'

Remove all XML stuff:

sed 's#<[^>]*>##g'

Hack to add newline at the end:

grep " "

Columnize:

column -t

Example output

351996  0.50502  ProjectA_XXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXXXX                user123  r   2015-06-25T15:38:41  [e-mail]  1
351997  0.50502  ProjectA_XXX_XXXX_XXX                         user123  r   2015-06-25T15:39:26  [e-mail]  1
351998  0.50502  ProjectA_XXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXX              user123  r   2015-06-25T15:40:26  [e-mail]  1
351999  0.50502  ProjectA_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXX          user123  r   2015-06-25T15:42:11  [e-mail]  1
352001  0.50502  ProjectA_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX_XXXX_XXXX    user123  r   2015-06-25T15:42:11  [e-mail]  1
352008  0.50501  runXXXX69                                     usr1     r   2015-06-25T15:49:04  [e-mail]  1
352009  0.50501  runXXXX70                                     usr1     r   2015-06-25T15:49:04  [e-mail]  1
352010  0.50501  runXXXX71                                     usr1     r   2015-06-25T15:49:04  [e-mail]  1
352011  0.50501  runXXXX72                                     usr1     r   2015-06-25T15:49:04  [e-mail]  1
352012  0.50501  runXXXX73                                     usr1     r   2015-06-25T15:49:04  [e-mail]  1
352013  0.50501  runXXXX74                                     usr1     r   2015-06-25T15:49:04  [e-mail]  1