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TORQUE Administrator's Manual - 2.3 Canceling Jobs

2.3 Canceling Jobs

TORQUE allows users and administrators to cancel submitted jobs with the qdel command.  The job will be sent a TERM and KILL signals killing the running processes.  When the top-level job script exits, the job will exit.  Simply supply it to the jobid to be canceled.

If a job is canceled by an operator or manager, an email notification will be sent to the user.  Operators and managers may add a comment to this email with the -m option.

$ qstat
Job id           Name             User             Time Use S Queue
---------------- ---------------- ---------------- -------- - -----
4807             scatter          user01           12:56:34 R batch
...
$ qdel -m "hey! Stop abusing the NFS servers" 4807
$