[torqueusers] Question to Torque community regarding display of completed jobs in qstat

[Craig Tierney - NOAA Affiliate]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:42 PM, David Beer <dbeer at adaptivecomputing.com>wrote:

>
>> 3) Unless I reachitect our Torque servers, users never have any access to
>> the information to get the exit status from the log files.  Plus that still
>> requires parsing ascii log files which is not efficient (where keeping the
>> exit code in memory is efficient).
>>
>
> The qstat -f output for a job is a way to get the exit status for a job.
>
> $ qstat -f 192 | grep exit
>     exit_status = 0
>
>
This is exactly what I want to do.  But that requires setting
keep_completed_jobs to 86400.  This means I will have 30000+ jobs in
completed state, slowing down the response of qstat (and I doubt people
want to see the completed jobs most of the time).  Hence the point of this
discussion.

Craig


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