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nextflow_trace_columns.txt
Name Description
task_id Task ID.
hash Task hash code.
native_id Task ID given by the underlying execution system e.g. POSIX process PID when executed locally, job ID when executed by a grid engine, etc.
process Nextflow process name.
tag User provided identifier associated this task.
name Task name.
status Task status.
exit POSIX process exit status.
module Environment module used to run the task.
container Docker image name used to execute the task.
cpus The cpus number request for the task execution.
time The time request for the task execution
disk The disk space request for the task execution.
memory The memory request for the task execution.
attempt Attempt at which the task completed.
submit Timestamp when the task has been submitted.
start Timestamp when the task execution has started.
complete Timestamp when task execution has completed.
duration Time elapsed to complete since the submission.
realtime Task execution time i.e. delta between completion and start timestamp.
queue The queue that the executor attempted to run the process on.
%cpu Percentage of CPU used by the process.
%mem Percentage of memory used by the process.
rss Real memory (resident set) size of the process. Equivalent to ps -o rss .
vmem Virtual memory size of the process. Equivalent to ps -o vsize .
peak_rss Peak of real memory. This data is read from field VmHWM in /proc/$pid/status file.
peak_vmem Peak of virtual memory. This data is read from field VmPeak in /proc/$pid/status file.
rchar Number of bytes the process read, using any read-like system call from files, pipes, tty, etc. This data is read from file /proc/$pid/io.
wchar Number of bytes the process wrote, using any write-like system call. This data is read from file /proc/$pid/io.
syscr Number of read-like system call invocations that the process performed. This data is read from file /proc/$pid/io.
syscw Number of write-like system call invocations that the process performed. This data is read from file /proc/$pid/io.
read_bytes Number of bytes the process directly read from disk. This data is read from file /proc/$pid/io.
write_bytes Number of bytes the process originally dirtied in the page-cache (assuming they will go to disk later). This data is read from file /proc/$pid/io.
vol_ctxt Number of voluntary context switches.
inv_ctxt Number of involuntary context switches.
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