According to the bqueues manual page:
STARTED
Number of job slots used by running or
suspended jobs owned by users or user groups in
the queue.
According to bqueues, I have 369 jobs started:
$ bqueues -r lotus | egrep '(STARTED|gholl)'
USER/GROUP SHARES PRIORITY STARTED RESERVED CPU_TIME RUN_TIME ADJUST
gholl 10 0.006 369 0 2334366.5 723589 0.000
But when I run bjobs, it only shows 24 jobs that are running or suspended:
$ bjobs | egrep '(RUN|SUSP)' | wc -l
24
What explains the discrepancy between 24 jobs running and 369 jobs started?
The number in STARTED refers to the number of slots. One job may take up more than one slot if it uses multiple threads. For example, if a job is submitted using bsubs with the flag -n 16, then each job will use 16 jobs. 23×16+1=368, so in the example above, user gholl has 23 jobs using 16 slots and 1 job using 1 slot.