Terminating jobs (bkill)

Procedure

  1. Use the -g option of bkill and specify a job group path to terminate jobs in a job group.
    bkill -g /risk_group 106
    Job <106> is being terminated
  2. Use job ID 0 (zero) to terminate all jobs in a job group:
    bkill -g /risk_group 0
    Job <1413> is being terminated 
    Job <1414> is being terminated 
    Job <1415> is being terminated 
    Job <1416> is being terminated

    bkill only kills jobs in the job group you specify. It does not kill jobs in lower-level job groups in the path. For example, jobs are attached to job groups /risk_group and /risk_group/consolidate:

    bsub -g /risk_group  myjob
    Job <115> is submitted to default queue <normal>.
    bsub -g /risk_group/consolidate myjob2
    Job <116> is submitted to default queue <normal>.

    The following bkill command only kills jobs in /risk_group, not the subgroup /risk_group/consolidate:

    bkill -g /risk_group 0
    Job <115> is being terminated
    To kill jobs in /risk_group/consolidate, specify the path to the consolidate job group explicitly:
    bkill -g /risk_group/consolidate 0
    Job <116> is being terminated