sge_schedule(5)

NAME
sge_schedule - format of the Grid Engine schedule file

DESCRIPTION
The schedule file is written by the qmaster when MONITOR=1 is set in the params item of

Note that the file tends to grow rapidly, and should be truncated/rotated, e.g. with Also it should probably be placed on local disk, not an NFS-mounted filesystem, for instance, because of the large number of small writes it typically gets - e.g. make a symbolic link into the qmaster spool area (assuming that is local).

See for a tool to process the data and produce information on reservations.

FORMAT
A line containing
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indicates the start of a scheduling interval. It is followed by lines showing the resource usage considered for the interval. They contain the following fields, delimited by ':'.

job id
    The numeric job id;

task id
    The task id (1 for serial jobs);

reason
    The for listing the utilization. One of the following, depending on the job's state:

    RUNNING
        Running before the interval;

    SUSPENDED
        Suspended before the interval;

    MIGRATING
        To be preempted/migrated (currently unused);

    STARTING
        To be started;

    RESERVING
        Having resources reserved through advance or normal resource reservation.

start time
    Start of resource utilization, in seconds after the epoch;

end time
    End of resource utilization, as above;

level
    The level at which resources are considered. One of:

    Q   Queue;

    H   Host;

    G   Global;

    P   Parallel environment.

object name
    Name of the relevant queue, host, parallel environment, or "global";

resource name
    Complex name in use or being reserved;

utilization
    Amount of the named complex.

FILES
$SGE_ROOT/$SGE_$CELL/common/schedule

SEE ALSO