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C H A P T E R 7

Displaying Program Information With mpps

What You Can Do

To Perform This Task	Use this Option
How to display job status	none
How to display information about individual jobs	-J
How to display name, PID, and host of current job	-b
How to display information about all jobs	-e
How to display a job's start time	-f
How to display job information by partition	-A -a
How to display job information by process	-P -p

How to Display Job Status

To display status information about your jobs running in the default partition, enter the mpps command without options:

% mpps

For example:

% mpps

JOBNAME   NPROC  UID   STATE  AOUT

cre.41    3      slu   RUN    AAA

cre.46    4      slu   EXNG   tmp

cre.49    1      slu   EXIT   tmp

cre.99    9      slu   EXNG   uname

cre.100   9      slu   EXNG   uname

The status fields are described in TABLE 7-1.


`mpps` Output	Description
CORE	The job or process exited due to a signal and core was dumped.
CORING	The job is exiting due to a signal. The first process to die dumped core.
EXIT	The job or process exited normally.
EXITING	The job is exiting. At least one process exited normally.
FAIL	The job or process failed while starting, or was aborted.
FAILING	Initialization of the job failed, or a job abort has been signaled.
RUN	The job or process is running.
SIGNALING	The job or process exited due to a signal.
SIGNALED	The job is exiting due to a signal. The first process to die was killed by a signal. At least one of its processes is still in the `RUN` state.
SPAWN	The job or process is being spawned.
STOPPED	The job or process is stopped.

How to Display Information About Individual
Jobs (-J)

To display information about a job, use the -J option and a job-attribute.

% mpps -J job-attribute[,job-attribute...]

Separate multiple job-attributes either with a comma or a space, but not both.


Attribute	Description
part	The name of the partition running the job
jobname	The job's unique ID, expressed as <resource-manager>.jobname
mprun_pid	The process identifier (PID) of the current `mprun` job
mprun_host	The host of the current `mprun` job
nproc	The number of processes requested (the actual number of processes started may differ if the `-W` (How to Wrap Multiple Processes (-W)) or `-S` (How to Settle for Available Processes (-S)) flags were used with `mprun)`
uid	The user on whose behalf the job was run (normally the user who submitted the job)
gid	The group on whose behalf the job was run (normally the group of the user who submitted the job)
state	`BUILD` - The job is being submitted `WAIT` - The job is waiting to run `SPAWN` - The job is preparing to run `RUN` - The job is running `RSTRT` - The job has been killed because one of the nodes on which it was running went down; the job will be restarted
running	The number of processes actually running in this job. Not always equal to the number of processes started for the job because processes that have exited are not counted
wkdir	The directory in which the job's processes start
aout	The name of the program
paout	The full path of the program
ctime	The time when `mprun` was invoked
args	The command-line arguments of the program
stime	The time the job was started
prio	The job priority (higher numbers run first)

How to Display Job Name, PID, and Host of Current Job (-b)

Use the -b option to display job name, process identifier, and host of a current MPI job.

% mpps -b

How to D isplay Information About All Jobs (-e)

Use the -e option to display information about all jobs.

% mpps -e

How to Display a Job's Start Time (-f)

Use the -f option to display the start time for each job.

% mpps -f

How to Display Job I nformation by Partition
(-A -a)

To display information about jobs running in all partitions, use the -A option.

% mpps -A

To display information about jobs running in a specific partition, use the -a option, followed by the name of the partition.

% mpps -a partition-name

How to Display Jo b Information by Process
(-p -P)

Use the -p option to include information about the processes that make up the jobs:

% mpps -p

For example:

% mpps -p

JID       NPROC  UID   STATE  AOUT   RANK  PID    STATE  NODE

lsf.2320  4      shaw  RUN    sleep  0     10190  RUN    node6

                                     1      4744  RUN    node7

                                     2     16564  RUN    node4

                                     3      9412  RUN    node5

The output fields are described in TABLE 7-3, below.

To display information about a particular process attribute, use the -P option:

% mpps -P process-attribute[,process-attribute...]

Separate multiple process-attributes either with a comma or a space, but not both. Use the attributes described in TABLE 7-3, below.


Attribute	Description
rank	The rank of the process within the job
pid	The process ID
state	The current execution state of the process
iod	The process ID of the I/O daemon for this process
load	The load on the node executing the process
node	The name of the node executing the process


Option	Description
none	Display status information about your jobs running in the default partition
-J	Display information about a particular job
-b	Display name, process identifier, and host of current job
-e	Display information about all jobs
-f	Display the time a job started
-A	Display information about jobs running in all partitions
-a	Display information about jobs running in a particular partition
-P	Display process information about a job
-p	Display information about a particular process attribute