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linux - pbsnodes output - what are the items in 'status'?

I have been using the pbsnodes command for a while to collect data on a computing cluster. Recently, I have thought it would be useful to compare number of jobs on a node to it's cpu usage. To me, it seems like the 'loadavg' metric in the status property of pbsnodes' output would be good for this; I can't find a description of what this metric actually is (or any of the other metrics), though, online or anywhere else. Can someone give me a description or a link to a description of the elements in pbsnodes 'status' output?

Solution

  • The load used by MoM is the following:

    • On Linux, it is the raw one-minute averaged loadave returned by the operating system
    • On Windows, it is based on the processor queue length

    Chapter 9.6.5 in PBS Professional 19.2.2 Big Book

    You can find more information about the newer versions of PBSPro and how the pbsnodes as well as the qstat commands work and what arguments you can add for specific status/vnode state information in the PBSPro Big Book. You can find the PDF at this link.