sinfo - Man Page

• Show a quick summary overview of the cluster: sinfo --summarize
• View the detailed status of all partitions across the entire cluster: sinfo
• View the detailed status of a specific partition: sinfo --partition partition_name
• View information about idle nodes: sinfo --states idle
• Summarise dead nodes: sinfo --dead
• List dead nodes and the reasons why: sinfo --list-reasons

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sinfo [Options...]

sinfo is used to view partition and node information for a system running Slurm.

-a,  --all

Display information about all partitions. This causes information to be displayed about partitions that are configured as hidden and partitions that are unavailable to the user's group.

-M,  --clusters=<string>

Clusters to issue commands to. Multiple cluster names may be comma separated. A value of 'all' will query all clusters. Note that the slurmdbd must be up for this option to work properly, unless running in a federation with either FederationParameters=fed_display configured or the --federation option set. This option implicitly sets the --local option.

-d,  --dead

If set, only report state information for non-responding (dead) nodes.

-e,  --exact

If set, do not group node information on multiple nodes unless their configurations to be reported are identical. Otherwise cpu count, memory size, and disk space for nodes will be listed with the minimum value followed by a "+" for nodes with the same partition and state (e.g. "250+").

--federation

Show all partitions from the federation if a member of one.

-F,  --future

Report nodes in FUTURE state.

-o,  --format=<output_format>

Specify the information to be displayed using an sinfo format string. If the command is executed in a federated cluster environment and information about more than one cluster is to be displayed and the -h, --noheader option is used, then the cluster name will be displayed before the default output formats shown below. Format strings transparently used by sinfo when running with various options are:

default

"%#P %.5a %.10l %.6D %.6t %N"

--summarize

"%#P %.5a %.10l %.16F  %N"

--long

"%#P %.5a %.10l %.10s %.4r %.8h %.10g %.6D %.11T %.11i %N"

--Node

"%#N %.6D %#P %6t"

--long --Node

"%#N %.6D %#P %.11T %.4c %.8z %.6m %.8d %.6w %.8f %20E"

--list-reasons

"%20E %9u %19H %N"

--long --list-reasons

"%20E %12U %19H %6t %N"

In the above format strings, the use of "#" represents the maximum length of any partition name or node list to be printed. A pass is made over the records to be printed to establish the size in order to align the sinfo output, then a second pass is made over the records to print them. Note that the literal character "#" itself is not a valid field length specification, but is only used to document this behavior.

The format of each field is "%[[.]size]type[suffix]"

size

Minimum field size. If no size is specified, whatever is needed to print the information will be used.

.

Indicates the output should be right justified and size must be specified. By default output is left justified.

suffix

Arbitrary string to append to the end of the field.

Valid type specifications include:

%all

Print all fields available for this data type with a vertical bar separating each field.

%a

State/availability of a partition.

%A

Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle". Do not use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be placed on separate lines.

%b

Features currently active on the nodes, also see %f.

%B

The max number of CPUs per node available to jobs in the partition.

%c

Number of CPUs per node.

%C

Number of CPUs by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Do not use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be placed on separate lines.

%d

Size of temporary disk space per node in megabytes.

%D

Number of nodes.

%e

The total memory, in MB, currently free on the node as reported by the OS. This value is for informational use only and is not used for scheduling.

%E

The reason a node is unavailable (down, drained, or draining states).

%f

Features available the nodes, also see %b.

%F

Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Note the use of this format option with a node state format option ("%t" or "%T") will result in the different node states being be reported on separate lines.

%g

Groups which may use the nodes.

%G

Generic resources (gres) associated with the nodes.

%h

Print the OverSubscribe setting for the partition.

%H

Print the timestamp of the reason a node is unavailable.

%i

If a node is in an advanced reservation print the name of that reservation.

%I

Partition job priority weighting factor.

%l

Maximum time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds"

%L

Default time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds"

%m

Size of memory per node in megabytes.

%M

PreemptionMode.

%n

List of node hostnames.

%N

List of node names.

%o

List of node communication addresses.

%O

CPU load of a node as reported by the OS.

%p

Partition scheduling tier priority.

%P

Partition name followed by "*" for the default partition, also see %R.

%r

Only user root may initiate jobs, "yes" or "no".

%R

Partition name, also see %P.

%s

Maximum job size in nodes.

%S

Allowed allocating nodes.

%t

State of nodes, compact form.

%T

State of nodes, extended form.

%u

Print the user name of who set the reason a node is unavailable.

%U

Print the user name and uid of who set the reason a node is unavailable.

%v

Print the version of the running slurmd daemon.

%V

Print the cluster name if running in a federation.

%w

Scheduling weight of the nodes.

%X

Number of sockets per node.

%Y

Number of cores per socket.

%Z

Number of threads per core.

%z

Extended processor information: number of sockets, cores, threads (S:C:T) per node.

-O,  --Format=<output_format>

Specify the information to be displayed. Also see the -o <output_format>, --format=<output_format> option (which supports greater flexibility in formatting, but does not support access to all fields because we ran out of letters). Requests a comma separated list of job information to be displayed.

The format of each field is "type[:[.][size][suffix]]"

size

The maximum field size. If no size is specified, 20 characters will be allocated to print the information.

.

Indicates the output should be right justified and size must be specified. By default, output is left justified.

suffix

Arbitrary string to append to the end of the field.

Valid type specifications include:

All

Print all fields available in the -o format for this data type with a vertical bar separating each field.

AllocMem

Prints the amount of allocated memory on a node.

AllocNodes

Allowed allocating nodes.

Available

State/availability of a partition.

Cluster

Print the cluster name if running in a federation.

Comment

Comment. (Arbitrary descriptive string)

Cores

Number of cores per socket.

CPUs

Number of CPUs per node.

CPUsLoad

CPU load of a node as reported by the OS.

CPUsState

Number of CPUs by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Do not use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be placed on separate lines.

DefaultTime

Default time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds".

Disk

Size of temporary disk space per node in megabytes.

Extra

Arbitrary string on the node.

Features

Features available on the nodes. Also see features_act.

features_act

Features currently active on the nodes. Also see features.

FreeMem

The total memory, in MB, currently free on the node as reported by the OS. This value is for informational use only and is not used for scheduling.

Gres

Generic resources (gres) associated with the nodes.

GresUsed

Generic resources (gres) currently in use on the nodes.

Groups

Groups which may use the nodes.

MaxCPUsPerNode

The max number of CPUs per node available to jobs in the partition.

Memory

Size of memory per node in megabytes.

NodeAddr

List of node communication addresses.

NodeAI

Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle". Do not use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be placed on separate lines.

NodeAIOT

Number of nodes by state in the format "allocated/idle/other/total". Do not use this with a node state option ("%t" or "%T") or the different node states will be placed on separate lines.

NodeHost

List of node hostnames.

NodeList

List of node names.

Nodes

Number of nodes.

OverSubscribe

Whether jobs may oversubscribe compute resources (e.g. CPUs).

Partition

Partition name followed by "*" for the default partition, also see %R.

PartitionName

Partition name, also see %P.

Port

Node TCP port.

PreemptMode

Preemption mode.

PriorityJobFactor

Partition factor used by priority/multifactor plugin in calculating job priority.

PriorityTier or Priority

Partition scheduling tier priority.

Reason

The reason a node is unavailable (down, drained, or draining states).

Root

Only user root may initiate jobs, "yes" or "no".

Size

Maximum job size in nodes.

SocketCoreThread

Extended processor information: number of sockets, cores, threads (S:C:T) per node.

Sockets

Number of sockets per node.

StateCompact

State of nodes, compact form.

StateLong

State of nodes, extended form.

StateComplete

State of nodes, including all node state flags. e.g. "idle+cloud+power"

Threads

Number of threads per core.

Time

Maximum time for any job in the format "days-hours:minutes:seconds".

TimeStamp

Print the timestamp of the reason a node is unavailable.

User

Print the user name of who set the reason a node is unavailable.

UserLong

Print the user name and uid of who set the reason a node is unavailable.

Version

Print the version of the running slurmd daemon.

Weight

Scheduling weight of the nodes.

--help

Print a message describing all sinfo options.

--hide

Do not display information about hidden partitions. Partitions that are configured as hidden or are not available to the user's group will not be displayed. This is the default behavior.

-i,  --iterate=<seconds>

Print the state on a periodic basis. Sleep for the indicated number of seconds between reports. By default prints a time stamp with the header.

--json, --json=list, --json=<data_parser>

Dump information as JSON using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with parameters. All information is dumped, even if it would normally not be. Sorting and formatting arguments passed to other options are ignored; however, filtering arguments are still used.

-R,  --list-reasons

List reasons nodes are in the down, drained, fail or failing state. When nodes are in these states Slurm supports the inclusion of a "reason" string by an administrator. This option will display the first 20 characters of the reason field and list of nodes with that reason for all nodes that are, by default, down, drained, draining or failing. This option may be used with other node filtering options (e.g. -r, -d, -t, -n), however, combinations of these options that result in a list of nodes that are not down or drained or failing will not produce any output. When used with -l the output additionally includes the current node state.

--local

Show only jobs local to this cluster. Ignore other clusters in this federation (if any). Overrides --federation.

-l,  --long

Print more detailed information. This is ignored if the --format option is specified.

--noconvert

Don't convert units from their original type (e.g. 2048M won't be converted to 2G).

-N,  --Node

Print information in a node-oriented format with one line per node and partition. That is, if a node belongs to more than one partition, then one line for each node-partition pair will be shown. If --partition is also specified, then only one line per node in this partition is shown. The default is to print information in a partition-oriented format. This is ignored if the --format option is specified.

-n,  --nodes=<nodes>

Print information about the specified node(s). Multiple nodes may be comma separated or expressed using a node range expression (e.g. "linux[00-17]") Limiting the query to just the relevant nodes can measurably improve the performance of the command for large clusters.

-h,  --noheader

Do not print a header on the output.

-p,  --partition=<partition>

Print information about the node(s) in the specified partition(s). Multiple partitions are separated by commas.

-T,  --reservation

Only display information about Slurm reservations.

NOTE: This option causes sinfo to ignore most other options, which are focused on partition and node information.

-r,  --responding

If set only report state information for responding nodes.

-S,  --sort=<sort_list>

Specification of the order in which records should be reported. This uses the same field specification as the <output_format>. Multiple sorts may be performed by listing multiple sort fields separated by commas. The field specifications may be preceded by "+" or "-" for ascending (default) and descending order respectively. The partition field specification, "P", may be preceded by a "#" to report partitions in the same order that they appear in Slurm's configuration file, slurm.conf. For example, a sort value of "+P,-m" requests that records be printed in order of increasing partition name and within a partition by decreasing memory size. The default value of sort is "#P,-t" (partitions ordered as configured then decreasing node state). If the --Node option is selected, the default sort value is "N" (increasing node name).

-t,  --states=<states>

List nodes only having the given state(s). Multiple states may be comma separated and the comparison is case insensitive. If the states are separated by '&', then the nodes must be in all states. Possible values include (case insensitive): ALLOC, ALLOCATED, BLOCKED, CLOUD, COMP, COMPLETING, DOWN, DRAIN (for node in DRAINING or DRAINED states), DRAINED, DRAINING, FAIL, FUTURE, FUTR, IDLE, MAINT, MIX, MIXED, NO_RESPOND, NPC, PERFCTRS, PLANNED, POWER_DOWN, POWERING_DOWN, POWERED_DOWN, POWERING_UP, REBOOT_ISSUED, REBOOT_REQUESTED, RESV, RESERVED, UNK, and UNKNOWN. By default nodes in the specified state are reported whether they are responding or not. The --dead and --responding options may be used to filter nodes by the corresponding flag.

-s,  --summarize

List only a partition state summary with no node state details. This is ignored if the --format option is specified.

--usage

Print a brief message listing the sinfo options.

-v,  --verbose

Provide detailed event logging through program execution.

-V,  --version

Print version information and exit.

--yaml, --yaml=list, --yaml=<data_parser>

Dump information as YAML using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with parameters. All information is dumped, even if it would normally not be. Sorting and formatting arguments passed to other options are ignored; however, filtering arguments are still used.

AVAIL

Partition state. Can be either up, down, drain, or inact (for INACTIVE). See the partition definition's State parameter in the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

CPUS

Count of CPUs (processors) on these nodes.

S:C:T

Count of sockets (S), cores (C), and threads (T) on these nodes.

SOCKETS

Count of sockets on these nodes.

CORES

Count of cores on these nodes.

THREADS

Count of threads on these nodes.

GROUPS

Resource allocations in this partition are restricted to the named groups. all indicates that all groups may use this partition.

JOB_SIZE

Minimum and maximum node count that can be allocated to any user job. A single number indicates the minimum and maximum node count are the same. infinite is used to identify partitions without a maximum node count.

TIMELIMIT

Maximum time limit for any user job in days-hours:minutes:seconds. infinite is used to identify partitions without a job time limit.

MEMORY

Size of real memory in megabytes on these nodes.

NODELIST

Names of nodes associated with this particular configuration.

NODES

Count of nodes with this particular configuration.

NODES(A/I)

Count of nodes with this particular configuration by node state in the form "allocated/idle".

NODES(A/I/O/T)

Count of nodes with this particular configuration by node state in the form "allocated/idle/other/total".

PARTITION

Name of a partition. Note that the suffix "*" identifies the default partition.

PORT

Local TCP port used by slurmd on the node.

ROOT

Is the ability to allocate resources in this partition restricted to user root, yes or no.

OVERSUBSCRIBE

Whether jobs allocated resources in this partition can/will oversubscribe those compute resources (e.g. CPUs). NO indicates resources are never oversubscribed. EXCLUSIVE indicates whole nodes are dedicated to jobs (equivalent to srun --exclusive option, may be used even with select/cons_tres managing individual processors). FORCE indicates resources are always available to be oversubscribed. YES indicates resource may be oversubscribed, if requested by the job's resource allocation.

NOTE: If OverSubscribe is set to FORCE or YES, the OversubScribe value will be appended to the output.

STATE

State of the nodes. Possible states include: allocated, blocked, completing, down, drained, draining, fail, failing, future, idle, maint, mixed, perfctrs, planned, power_down, power_up, reserved, and unknown. Their abbreviated forms are: alloc, block, comp, down, drain, drng, fail, failg, futr, idle, maint, mix, npc, plnd, pow_dn, pow_up, resv, and unk respectively.

NOTE: The suffix "*" identifies nodes that are presently not responding.

TMP_DISK

Size of temporary disk space in megabytes on these nodes.

Node state codes are shortened as required for the field size. These node states may be followed by a special character to identify state flags associated with the node. The following node suffixes and states are used:

*

The node is presently not responding and will not be allocated any new work. If the node remains non-responsive, it will be placed in the DOWN state (except in the case of COMPLETING, DRAINED, DRAINING, FAIL, FAILING nodes).

~

The node is presently in powered off.

#

The node is presently being powered up or configured.

!

The node is pending power down.

%

The node is presently being powered down.

$

The node is currently in a reservation with a flag value of "maintenance".

@

The node is pending reboot.

^

The node reboot was issued.

-

The node is planned by the backfill scheduler for a higher priority job.

ALLOCATED

The node has been allocated to one or more jobs.

ALLOCATED+

The node is allocated to one or more active jobs plus one or more jobs are in the process of COMPLETING.

BLOCKED

The node has been blocked by exclusive topo job.

COMPLETING

All jobs associated with this node are in the process of COMPLETING. This node state will be removed when all of the job's processes have terminated and the Slurm epilog program (if any) has terminated. See the Epilog parameter description in the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

DOWN

The node is unavailable for use. Slurm can automatically place nodes in this state if some failure occurs. System administrators may also explicitly place nodes in this state. If a node resumes normal operation, Slurm can automatically return it to service. See the ReturnToService and SlurmdTimeout parameter descriptions in the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

DRAINED

The node is unavailable for use per system administrator request. See the update node command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

DRAINING

The node is currently allocated a job, but will not be allocated additional jobs. The node state will be changed to state DRAINED when the last job on it completes. Nodes enter this state per system administrator request. See the update node command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

FAIL

The node is expected to fail soon and is unavailable for use per system administrator request. See the update node command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

FAILING

The node is currently executing a job, but is expected to fail soon and is unavailable for use per system administrator request. See the update node command in the scontrol(1) man page or the slurm.conf(5) man page for more information.

FUTURE

The node is currently not fully configured, but expected to be available at some point in the indefinite future for use.

IDLE

The node is not allocated to any jobs and is available for use.

INVAL

The node did not register correctly with the controller. This happens when a node registers with less resources than configured in the slurm.conf file. The node will clear from this state with a valid registration (i.e. a slurmd restart is required).

MAINT

The node is currently in a reservation with a flag value of "maintenance".

REBOOT_ISSUED

A reboot request has been sent to the agent configured to handle this request.

REBOOT_REQUESTED

A request to reboot this node has been made, but hasn't been handled yet.

MIXED

The node has some of its CPUs ALLOCATED while others are IDLE. Or the node has a suspended job allocated to some of its TRES (e.g. memory).

PERFCTRS (NPC)

Network Performance Counters associated with this node are in use, rendering this node as not usable for any other jobs

PLANNED

The node is planned by the backfill scheduler for a higher priority job.

POWER_DOWN

The node is pending power down.

POWERED_DOWN

The node is currently powered down and not capable of running any jobs.

POWERING_DOWN

The node is in the process of powering down and not capable of running any jobs.

POWERING_UP

The node is in the process of being powered up.

RESERVED

The node is in an advanced reservation and not generally available.

UNKNOWN

The Slurm controller has just started and the node's state has not yet been determined.

Executing sinfo sends a remote procedure call to slurmctld. If enough calls from sinfo or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmctld daemon come in at once, it can result in a degradation of performance of the slurmctld daemon, possibly resulting in a denial of service.

Do not run sinfo or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to slurmctld from loops in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls to sinfo to the minimum necessary for the information you are trying to gather.

Some sinfo options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their corresponding options, are listed below. NOTE: Command line options will always override these settings.

SINFO_ALL

Same as -a, --all

SINFO_FEDERATION

Same as --federation

SCONTROL_FUTURE

-F, --future

SINFO_FORMAT

Same as -o <output_format>, --format=<output_format>

SINFO_LOCAL

Same as --local

SINFO_PARTITION

Same as -p <partition>, --partition=<partition>

SINFO_SORT

Same as -S <sort>, --sort=<sort>

SLURM_CLUSTERS

Same as --clusters

SLURM_CONF

The location of the Slurm configuration file.

SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS

Specify debug flags for sinfo to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting in the slurm.conf.

SLURM_TIME_FORMAT

Specify the format used to report time stamps. A value of standard, the default value, generates output in the form "year-month-dateThour:minute:second". A value of relative returns only "hour:minute:second" if the current day. For other dates in the current year it prints the "hour:minute" preceded by "Tomorr" (tomorrow), "Ystday" (yesterday), the name of the day for the coming week (e.g. "Mon", "Tue", etc.), otherwise the date (e.g. "25 Apr"). For other years it returns a date month and year without a time (e.g. "6 Jun 2012"). All of the time stamps use a 24 hour format.

A valid strftime() format can also be specified. For example, a value of "%a %T" will report the day of the week and a time stamp (e.g. "Mon 12:34:56").

Report basic node and partition configurations:

$ sinfo
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES STATE  NODELIST
batch     up     infinite     2 alloc  adev[8-9]
batch     up     infinite     6 idle   adev[10-15]
debug*    up        30:00     8 idle   adev[0-7]

Report partition summary information:

$ sinfo -s
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT NODES(A/I/O/T) NODELIST
batch     up     infinite 2/6/0/8        adev[8-15]
debug*    up        30:00 0/8/0/8        adev[0-7]

Report more complete information about the partition debug:

$ sinfo --long --partition=debug
PARTITION AVAIL TIMELIMIT JOB_SIZE ROOT OVERSUBS GROUPS NODES STATE NODELIST
debug*    up        30:00        8 no   no       all        8 idle  dev[0-7]

Report only those nodes that are in state DRAINED:

$ sinfo --states=drained
PARTITION AVAIL NODES TIMELIMIT STATE  NODELIST
debug*    up        2     30:00 drain  adev[6-7]

Report node-oriented information with details and exact matches:

$ sinfo -Nel
NODELIST    NODES PARTITION STATE  CPUS MEMORY TMP_DISK WEIGHT FEATURES REASON
adev[0-1]       2 debug*    idle      2   3448    38536     16 (null)   (null)
adev[2,4-7]     5 debug*    idle      2   3384    38536     16 (null)   (null)
adev3           1 debug*    idle      2   3394    38536     16 (null)   (null)
adev[8-9]       2 batch     allocated 2    246    82306     16 (null)   (null)
adev[10-15]     6 batch     idle      2    246    82306     16 (null)   (null)

Report only down, drained and draining nodes and their reason field:

$ sinfo -R
REASON                              NODELIST
Memory errors                       dev[0,5]
Not Responding                      dev8

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