Monitoring slurm efficiency with reportseff

Motivation

As I started using Snakemake, I had hundreds of jobs that I wanted to get performance information about. seff gives the efficiency information I wanted, but for only a single job at a time. sacct handles multiple jobs, but couldn’t give the efficiency. With the current python implementation of reportseff, all job information is obtained from a single sacct call and with click the output is colored to quickly see how things are running.

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