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Working With PBS Jobs
Chapter 7
impact of changing the order within the queue(s) is dependent on local job
scheduling policy; contact your systems administrator for details.
Important:
A job in the running state cannot be reordered.
Usage of the qorder command is:
qorder job_identifier1 job_identifier2
Job array identifiers must be enclosed in double quotes.
Both operands are job_identifiers which specify the jobs to be
exchanged.
qstat -u bob
Req'd Elap
Job ID User Queue Jobname Sess NDS TSK Mem Time S Time
-------- ------ ----- ------- ---- --- --- --- ---- - ---54.south bob workq twinkie -- -- 1 -- 0:20 Q -63[].south bob workq airfoil -- -- 1 -- 0:13 Q -qorder 54 “63[]”
qstat -u bob
Req'd Elap
Job ID User Queue Jobname Sess NDS TSK Mem Time S Time
-------- ------ ----- ------- ---- --- --- --- ---- - ---63[].south bob workq airfoil -- -- 1 -- 0:13 Q -54.south bob workq twinkie -- -- 1 -- 0:20 Q --
To change the order of two jobs using xpbs, select the two jobs, and then
click the order button.
The qorder command can only be used with job array objects, not on subjobs or ranges. This will change the queue order of the job array in association with other jobs or job arrays in the queue.
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