PBS / Torque - Failed to delete completed work status information

Question

The qstat -a command prints a lot of lines of information for completed jobs with a status of "C". They seem to stay forever. How to clear this unnecessary information about the work, since these tasks are already "completed"? Thanks!

Answer 1

This is controlled by the qmgr keep_completed parameter. keep_completed indicates the number of seconds after the completion of the job, which should remain visible. If you want to immediately delete a task without waiting for this amount of time, you can do

qdel -p <jobid>