Slurm pending jobs

Question

i have a problem with slurm every job i execute keeps pending

and i dont know what to do (im new to the field)

scontrol: show job
JobId=484 JobName=Theileiria_project
   UserId=dhamer(1037) GroupId=Bio-info(1001) MCS_label=N/A
   Priority=4294901741 Nice=0 Account=(null) QOS=normal
   JobState=PENDING Reason=BeginTime Dependency=(null)
   Requeue=1 Restarts=481 BatchFlag=1 Reboot=0 ExitCode=0:0
   RunTime=00:00:00 TimeLimit=01:00:00 TimeMin=N/A
   SubmitTime=2022-04-19T08:47:58 EligibleTime=2022-04-19T08:49:59
   AccrueTime=2022-04-19T08:49:59
   StartTime=2022-04-19T08:49:59 EndTime=2022-04-19T09:49:59 Deadline=N/A
   SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 LastSchedEval=2022-04-19T08:47:58
   Partition=defq AllocNode:Sid=omix:377206
   ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=(null)
   NodeList=(null)
   BatchHost=omics001
   NumNodes=1 NumCPUs=30 NumTasks=30 CPUs/Task=1 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:*:*
   TRES=cpu=30,mem=32G,node=1,billing=30
   Socks/Node=* NtasksPerN:B:S:C=0:0:*:* CoreSpec=*
   MinCPUsNode=1 MinMemoryNode=32G MinTmpDiskNode=0
   Features=(null) DelayBoot=00:00:00
   OverSubscribe=NO Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null)
   Command=/home/dhamer/test.sh
   WorkDir=/home/dhamer
   StdErr=/home/dhamer/Theileiria_project.log
   StdIn=/dev/null
   StdOut=/home/dhamer/Theileiria_project.log
   Power=

Answer 1

Reason=BeginTime in the scontrol output means (according to man squeue) that "The job's earliest start time has not yet been reached." This is usually because the queue is full, or your job has low priority in the queue.

I would check with your systems administrators or your HPC helpdesk.

By the way, the submission command in your comment doesn't match the scontrol output, since in the script you set the timelimit to 5 minutes, but the output indicates a timelimit of 1 hour.