ACCOUNTING(5)

NAME
accounting - Grid Engine Enterprise Edition accounting file format

DESCRIPTION
An accounting record is written to the Grid Engine Enterprise Edition accounting file for each job having finished. The accounting file is processed by to derive accounting statistics.

FORMAT
Each job is represented by a line in the accounting file. Empty lines and lines which contain one character or less are ignored. Accounting record entries are separated by colon (':') signs. The entries denote in their order of appearance:

qname
    Name of the queue in which the job has run.

hostname
    Name of the execution host.

group
    The effective group id of the job owner when executing the job.

owner
    Owner of the Grid Engine Enterprise Edition job.

job_name
    Job name.

job_number
    Job identifier - job number.

account
    An account string as specified by the or -A option.

priority
    Priority value assigned to the job corresponding to the priority parameter in the queue configuration (see

submission_time
    Submission time in seconds (since epoch format).

start_time
    Start time in seconds (since epoch format).

end_time
    End time in seconds (since epoch format).

failed
    Indicates the problem which occurred in case a job could not be started on the execution host (e.g. because the owner of the job did not have a valid account on that machine). If Grid Engine Enterprise Edition tries to start a job multiple times, this may lead to multiple entries in the accounting file corresponding to the same job ID.

exit_status
    Exit status of the job script (or Grid Engine Enterprise Edition specific status in case of certain error conditions).

ru_wallclock
    Difference between end_time and start_time (see above).

The remainder of the accounting entries follows the contents of the standard UNIX rusage structure as described in The following entries are provided:

    ru_utime
    ru_stime
    ru_maxrss
    ru_ixrss
    ru_ismrss
    ru_idrss
    ru_isrss
    ru_minflt
    ru_majflt
    ru_nswap
    ru_inblock
    ru_oublock
    ru_msgsnd
    ru_msgrcv
    ru_nsignals
    ru_nvcsw
    ru_nivcsw

project
    The project which was assigned to the job. Projects are only supported in case of a Grid Engine Enterprise Edition system.

department
    The department which was assigned to the job. Departments are only supported in case of a Grid Engine Enterprise Edition system.

granted_pe
    The parallel environment which was selected for that job.

slots
    The number of slots which were dispatched to the job by the scheduler.

task_number
    Array job task index number.

cpu The cpu time usage in seconds.

mem The integral memory usage in Gbytes seconds.

io  The amount of data transferred in input/output operations.

category
    A string specifying the job category.

iow The io wait time in seconds.

pe_taskid
    If this identifier is set the task was part of a parallel job and was passed to Grid Engine Enterprise Edition via the qrsh -inherit interface.

maxvmem
    The maximum vmem size in bytes.

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