Understanding walltime error messages


The full error message will be reported as below, and can be found by clicking on the bug icon for a failed job run (red dataset):

job info:
This job was terminated because it ran longer than the maximum allowed job run time.
Please click the bug icon to report this problem if you need help.

Or sometimes,

job stderr:
slurmstepd: error: *** JOB XXXX ON XXXX CANCELLED AT 2019-XX-XXTXX:XX:XX DUE TO TIME LIMIT ***

job info:
Remote job server indicated a problem running or monitoring this job.
  • Causes:
    • The job execution time exceeded the “wall-time” on the cluster node that ran the job.
    • The server may be undergoing maintenance.
    • Very often input problems also cause this same error.
  • Solutions:
Persistent URL
Resource purlPURL: https://gxy.io/GTN:F00109
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