Terminate jobs (bkill)

  1. Use the -g option of bkill and specify a job group path to terminate jobs in a job group.
    bkill -g /risk_group 106
    Job <106> is being terminated
  2. Use job ID 0 (zero) to terminate all jobs in a job group:
    bkill -g /risk_group 0
    Job <1413> is being terminated 
    Job <1414> is being terminated 
    Job <1415> is being terminated 
    Job <1416> is being terminated

    bkill only kills jobs in the job group you specify. It does not kill jobs in lower level job groups in the path. For example, jobs are attached to job groups /risk_group and /risk_group/consolidate:

    bsub -g /risk_group  myjob
    Job <115> is submitted to default queue <normal>.
    bsub -g /risk_group/consolidate myjob2
    Job <116> is submitted to default queue <normal>.

    The following bkill command only kills jobs in /risk_group, not the subgroup /risk_group/consolidate:

    bkill -g /risk_group 0
    Job <115> is being terminated
    To kill jobs in /risk_group/consolidate, specify the path to the consolidate job group explicitly:
    bkill -g /risk_group/consolidate 0
    Job <116> is being terminated