Check real time output after qsub a job on cluster

Question

Here is my pbs file:

#!/bin/bash 
#PBS -N myJob 
#PBS -j oe
#PBS -k o 
#PBS -V
#PBS -l nodes=hpg6-15:ppn=12
cd ${PBS_O_WORKDIR}

./mycommand

On qsub documentation page, it seems like if I put the line PBS -k o, I should be able to check the real time output in a file named myJob.oJOBID in my home dir. However when I check the output by tail -f or cat or more in runtime, it shows nothing in the file. Only when I terminated the job, then the file would show the output. Is there anything I should check to make the stream flush to the output file in real time?

Answer 1

By default, the files are created on the nodes and copied to your home directory when the job completes. The cluster admin can change this behavior by adding "$spool_as_final_name true" to the config file in the mom_priv directory on each node.

Torque MOM Configuration, parameters