sge_schedule(5) format of the Grid Engine schedule file

DESCRIPTION

The schedule file is written by the qmaster when MONITOR=1 is set in the params item of

Note that the file tends to grow rapidly, and should be truncated/rotated, e.g. with logrotate(1). Also it should probably be placed on local disk, not an NFS-mounted filesystem, for instance, because of the large number of small writes it typically gets - e.g. make a symbolic link into the qmaster spool area (assuming that is local).

See for a tool to process the data and produce information on reservations.

FORMAT

A line containing
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indicates the start of a scheduling interval. It is followed by lines showing the resource usage considered for the interval. They contain the following fields, delimited by ':'.
job id
The numeric job id;
task id
The task id (1 for serial jobs);
reason
The for listing the utilization. One of the following, depending on the job's state:
RUNNING
Running before the interval;
SUSPENDED
Suspended before the interval;
MIGRATING
To be preempted/migrated (currently unused);
STARTING
To be started;
RESERVING
Having resources reserved through advance or normal resource reservation.
start time
Start of resource utilization, in seconds after the epoch;
end time
End of resource utilization, as above;
level
The level at which resources are considered. One of:
Q
Queue;
H
Host;
G
Global;
P
Parallel environment.
object name
Name of the relevant queue, host, parallel environment, or "global";
resource name
Complex name in use or being reserved;
utilization
Amount of the named complex.

FILES

$SGE_ROOT/$SGE_$CELL/common/schedule