Monitoring Jobs

If you select Menuthen selectShow Jobs on Grid from the Grid Monitor window, then the Jobs window is displayed.
Jobs view
The Jobs window shows the following information:
Username The user ID that owns the job.
Job The job name. Servers are listed as lasr. Connections with the SAS LASR Analytic Server engine are listed as lasracc and connections with the SAS Data in HDFS engine are listed as lasrhoo. Other processes that run on the cluster, such as high-performance procedures can appear in the list as well.
ID The job ID.
% CPU Total percentage of CPU that is used by the job on all machines.
% Memory Actual amount and percentage of memory that is used by the job on all machines.
Time Run time in days, hours, and minutes. If the job has not run for more than 24 hours, then the days field is not shown.
# Ranks Number of machines used by the job.
LASR Port Port number that the server listens on.
Active Number of requests that the server is processing at the same time.
Pending Number of requests that are waiting for processing. After the server reaches the threshold for the number of concurrent processes to run, the requests are queued.
Tip
For more information about the Active and Pending fields, see SERVERPARM Statement.
If you right-click on a job, you can select the following items:
  • Kill Job Kills the selected process. See Stopping Processes.
  • Kill all jobs with user userid
  • Show Ranks Opens a new window that shows the processes on each machine that are related to the job. See Monitoring Ranks across Machines.
  • Copy to Clipboard
  • Execute Commands on Rank 0 Used by SAS research and development. It is easier to use the Grid Monitor window to execute commands on a machine.
  • Execute Commands on Last Rank Used by SAS research and development.
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