Re: [HTCondor-users] question about accounting groups

[Jeff Templon <templon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg, all

On 28 Apr 2021, at 16:09, Greg Thain via HTCondor-users wrote:

> Jeff:
>
> The accounting information is stored in the "AccountantNew.log" file, 
> which is maintained by the condor_negotiator. This file is written 
> to in a transaction-log style, where all changes to the state are 
> appended to the file, and periodically the file is rewritten with the 
> current state.
>
> -greg

Thanks Greg.  It seems like HTCondor has a different idea about what 
âaccountingâ is than I do, and thatâs whatâs throwing me off 
track.  What I see in the AccountantNew.log file is lots of stuff about 
the current state of slots, and lots of stuff about the current and 
historical state of aggregate usage for each user. Is this a correct 
assessment?

The thing I was looking for when I say âaccountingâ is something 
like this:

2020-10-22 16:47:22 some-job-unique-id user=templon group=pdp 
cput=07:22:01 wall=07:24:44 ncores=2 physmem=2700 vmem=4321 exstat=0
[ â ]

One line for each job that has run on the system.  So if I want to know 
how much âtemplonâ has run over the past month, I can select all the 
records for the past month and add the wall*ncores.  What do HTCondor 
folk call this (not accounting I guess) and where is it stored and how 
is it accessed?

Thanks,

JT