Use the -E flag for qstat to increase performance

This flag causes qstat to group job status calls going to the same server together. That makes qstat orders of magnitude faster for calls with many job ids.
larsevj · Apr 10, 2024 · ba916f6 · ba916f6
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diff --git a/src/ert/scheduler/openpbs_driver.py b/src/ert/scheduler/openpbs_driver.py
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ async def poll(self) -> None:
  if self._non_finished_job_ids:
  process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
  "qstat",
- "-x",
+ "-Ex",
  "-w", # wide format
  *self._non_finished_job_ids,
  stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ async def poll(self) -> None:
  if self._finished_job_ids:
  process = await asyncio.create_subprocess_exec(
  "qstat",
- "-fx",
+ "-Efx",
  "-Fjson",
  *self._finished_job_ids,
  stdout=asyncio.subprocess.PIPE,

diff --git a/tests/integration_tests/scheduler/bin/qstat.py b/tests/integration_tests/scheduler/bin/qstat.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ def parse_args() -> Namespace:
  ap.add_argument("-F", default="")
  ap.add_argument("jobs", nargs="*")
  ap.add_argument("-w", action="store_true")
+ ap.add_argument("-E", action="store_true")
  return ap.parse_args()