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Document pitfalls with PBS output spooling, etc. #493

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felker opened this issue Oct 17, 2024 · 0 comments
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Document pitfalls with PBS output spooling, etc. #493

felker opened this issue Oct 17, 2024 · 0 comments

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felker commented Oct 17, 2024

From a recent experience helping a user on Polaris, there are a few points that could use some clarification in our docs:

  • If you submit a job script that specifies #PBS -o /home/user/missing_dir/, and the target directory does not exist, the job will ping-pong between Running ---> Error --> Hold status, with confusing error messages, first claiming that Job run at Wed Oct 16 at 05:37, then job held, too many failed attempts to run

  • I don't think we ever explicitly say that a script submitted through qsub starts in $HOME?

  • Similarly PBS_O_WORKDIR is referenced a lot in the docs in example scripts, but deserves to be discussed in text alongside the above point.

  • Some users have tried to format the output file naming schema with variables like #PBS -o pbs_logs/R-$PBS_JOBID-$PBS_JOBNAME.out but I dont they are defined/ this is possible at job submission time? Might be a Slurm thing

Need to revisit the PBS Big Book on some of this

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