Getting information about submitted jobs

Avoid oversized jobs

It may seem attractive to request extra (spare) resources in a slurm job to make sure the job is not aborted because of limited resources. In reality, you may end up with a job that stays in the queue for a long time because there are insufficient resources available to meet the job specifications. This also applies to the minimum requested computation time.

If you make it unnecessarily large (or don't specify it), then there is a chance that slurm will not be able to fit it in on short notice (for example, because a maintenance window is scheduled next week). In addition, oversized jobs lead to less efficient use of the system.

This section shows some handy tools to check the resources that you have used in your job.