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Why are my jobs taking so long to start?

You can see why your jobs are in the PD (pending) state by running the squeue -u <username> command on the cluster.

The (REASON) column typically has the values Resources or Priority.

• Resourcesː The cluster is simply very busy and you will have to be patient or perhaps consider if you can submit a job that asks for fewer resources (e.g. nodes, memory, time).
• Priorityː Your job is waiting to start due to its lower priority. This is because you and other members of your research group have been over-consuming your fair share of the cluster resources in the recent past, something you can track using the command sshare as explained in Job scheduling policies.