[SCore-users] no output with qsub

James O'Dell James_ODell at brown.edu
Thu Oct 30 23:16:56 JST 2003


The way we overcome this is to redirect standard output on the
command line in the qsub script, i.e.

myjob > myjob.out

This allows you to see the output as the job runs.

Jim

On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:57, Atsushi HORI wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >I had earlier asked about a different problem, which
> >has not been answered yet.
> 
> Our problem is that none of us is the expert of PBS.
> 
> >When a long job is run the output is produced only
> >after the job finishes. Is there a way to view the
> >output file while the job is running.
> 
> >We had to reinstall the OS on the cluster.
> >Now when I submit a job using qsub, providing an
> >output path and file with PBS -o option, there is no
> >output.
> 
> My understanding on PBS is that the standard and/or error output of a 
> job is/are redirected to some file(s) on a compute host. When the job 
> finished, the output file(s) is/are copied to the host where the qsub 
> command is invoked by using the rcp command. Thus the output can only 
> be viewed when the job terminates.
> 
> I asked to my colleague who is an expert on PBS about your problem. 
> His answer was that even with the -o option the situation is almost 
> the same, I mean, the output is available only when the job terminates. 
> 
> Hi also pointed out that the output file specified with the -o option 
> must be located on NFS file filesystem.
> 
> Hope this will help you.
> 
> ----
> Atsushi HORI
> Swimmy Software, Inc.
> 
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