View pending reasons for jobs

About this task

When you submit a job, it may be held in the queue before it starts running and it may be suspended while running. You can find out why jobs are pending or in suspension with the bjobs -p option.

Procedure

  1. Run bjobs -p.

    Displays information for pending jobs (PEND state) and their reasons. There can be more than one reason why the job is pending.

    The pending reasons alsodisplay the number of hosts for each condition.

  2. To get specific host names along with pending reasons, run bjobs -lp.
  3. To view the pending reasons for all users, run bjobs -p -u all.