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Conventions

23.1.7 Manual preemption commands

You can use the mjobctl command to manually preempt jobs. The command can modify a job's execution state in the following ways:

Action Flag Details
Cancel -c Terminate job; remove from queue
Checkpoint -C Terminate and checkpoint job leaving job in queue
Requeue -R Terminate job; leave in queue
Resume -r Resume suspended job
Start (execute) -x Start idle job
Suspend -s Suspend active job

In general, users are allowed to suspend or terminate jobs they own. Administrators are allowed to suspend, terminate, resume, and execute any queued jobs.

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