missing job field 'comment'

[Whitehorse2]

Details

• Slurm Version: 20.11.8-1
• Python Version: 3.8
• Cython Version: 0.29.32
• PySlurm Branch: slurm-20.11.8
• Linux Distribution: ubuntu 20.04

Issue

From the pyslurm job database output, i am missing the 'comment' and tmp disk section.

Why is the data missing and can it be added?

Thanks in advance

[tazend]

Hi @Whitehorse2

just had a look, yeah fetching the comment from the database output just isn't implemented currently. I can check it out on the weekend.

Can you clarify what you mean with "tmp disk"? Maybe you can tell me the exact name of the property you want to retrieve? (by checking with sacct -e)

[Whitehorse2]

@tazend : Thank you, could you integrate this value at branch slurm-20.11.8 ?
I mean the MIN_TMP_DISK value, visible at squeue, but I could not find it at sacct.

[tazend]

Hi @Whitehorse2

I have added a "comment" field in the slurmdb jobs output in the branch you mentioned (b3cc365)

In regards to the MIN_TMP_DISK - for Jobs fetched from the database this information isn't available.

But for jobs which are still running/pending, you can use job().get() and then the field is called pn_min_tmp_disk. (that what squeue reports)

[tazend]

Workaround has been added for the old slurm version in the branch mentioned above. But the code in pyslurm.pyx is deprecated and the workaround will not be added to subsequent versions. The new API should be used, documented on https://pyslurm.github.io