RTM Queue Graphs
What do these graph templates show? Batch queue related information provides insight into how jobs associated with individual queues are behaving both while queued and once dispatched to a compute host. For purposes of understanding these graphs, the job states tracked in these graphs are explained below.
- Pending – A job that is waiting to be dispatched to a host
- Running – A job is currently in a run state, running on a host
- Submitted – A job that was recently submitted
- Started – A job that was recently dispatched
- Ended – A job that has finished successfully
- Exited – A job that was terminated abnormally
- Suspended – A job that was suspended (either by the system or by a user)
How the graph templates in this collection are useful
These graphs give a good overall view of batch queue activity. Increasing time spent in pending states or suspended states could indicate that workload volumes are not being effectively met by the existing resources and would suggest that a bottleneck exists. Because many sites use queues as instruments of policy, this is also an effective way to determine which queues are being used and which are not making it easier to consolidate the number of queues.