sshare - Tool for listing the shares of associations to a cluster.
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Description
sshare is used to view Slurm share information. This command is only viable when running with the
priority/multifactor plugin. The sshare information is derived from a database with the interface being
provided by slurmdbd (Slurm Database daemon) which is read in from the slurmctld and used to process the
shares available to a given association. sshare provides Slurm share information of Account, User, Raw
Shares, Normalized Shares, Raw Usage, Normalized Usage, Effective Usage, the Fair-share factor, the
GrpTRESMins limit, Partitions and accumulated currently running TRES-minutes for each association.
Environment Variables
Some sshare options may be set via environment variables. These environment variables, along with their
corresponding options, are listed below. (Note: Command line options will always override these
settings.)
SLURM_CONF The location of the Slurm configuration file.
SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS Specify debug flags for sshare to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page
for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting
in the slurm.conf.
Examples
Display information about users in a particular account:
$ sshare -A <Account>
Display information about a specific user in a parsable format:
$ sshare --parsable --users=<User>
Fair_Tree Modifications
When PriorityFlags=FAIR_TREE is set (the default, unless NO_FAIR_TREE is set), calculations are done
differently. As a result, the following fields are added or modified:
NormShares
The shares assigned to the user or account normalized to the total number of assigned shares
within the level.
EffectvUsage
Effectv Usage is the association's usage normalized with its parent.
LevelFS (only appears with sshare-l option)
This is the association's fairshare value compared to its siblings, calculated as Norm Shares /
Effectv Usage. If an association is over-served, the value is between 0 and 1. If an association
is under-served, the value is greater than 1. Associations with no usage receive the highest
possible value, infinity.
More information about Fair Tree can be found in doc/html/fair_tree.html or at
https://slurm.schedmd.com/fair_tree.html
Name
sshare - Tool for listing the shares of associations to a cluster.
Options
-A, --accounts=<account>
Display information for specific accounts (comma separated list).
-a, --all
Display information for all users.
-M, --clusters=<string>
Clusters to issue commands to. Note that the slurmdbd must be up for this option to work
properly, unless running in a federation with FederationParameters=fed_display configured.
-o, --format=<output_format>
Comma separated list of fields (use "--helpformat" for a list of available fields).
--help Display a description of sshare options and commands.
-l, --long
Long listing - includes the normalized usage information.
--json, --json=list, --json=<data_parser>
Dump information as JSON using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with
parameters. Sorting and formatting arguments will be ignored.
-n, --noheader
No header will be added to the beginning of the output.
-p, --parsable
Output will be '|' delimited with a '|' at the end.
-P, --parsable2
Output will be '|' delimited without a '|' at the end.
-m, --partition
If there are association based partitions in the system print their names.
--usage
Display a description of sshare options and commands.
-u, --users=<user_list>
Display information for specific users (comma separated list).
-U, --Users
If specified only the users information are printed, the parent and ancestors are not displayed.
-v, --verbose
Display more information about the specified options.
-V, --version
Display the version number of sshare.
--yaml, --yaml=list, --yaml=<data_parser>
Dump information as YAML using the default data_parser plugin or explicit data_parser with
parameters. Sorting and formatting arguments will be ignored.
Performance
Executing sshare sends a remote procedure call to slurmctld. If enough calls from sshare or other Slurm
client commands that send remote procedure calls to the slurmctld daemon come in at once, it can result
in a degradation of performance of the slurmctld daemon, possibly resulting in a denial of service.
Do not run sshare or other Slurm client commands that send remote procedure calls to slurmctld from loops
in shell scripts or other programs. Ensure that programs limit calls to sshare to the minimum necessary
for the information you are trying to gather.
See Also
slurm.conf(5), slurmdbd(8) August 2022 Slurm Commands sshare(1)
Synopsis
sshare [OPTIONS...]
