Hi Jannes Klee,
I understand that you wish to identify and terminate a specific running job on MATLAB Production Server (MPS) without stopping or restarting the entire server. Specifically, you are looking for a way to kill a stuck or problematic job (e.g., a job waiting for user input like uigetfile) using command-line tools, rather than using mps-stop or --kill -f.
In MATLAB Production Server (MPS), managing individual jobs directly (such as listing, inspecting, or killing a specific job) is not supported via the command line or built-in APIs).
- MPS is stateless by design which means that each client request is handled independently by worker processes that are spawned, used, and recycled as needed.
- You cannot get a queue of jobs or kill a specific job via a CLI.
- The only way to stop a problematic job is indirectly by restarting the server (mps-stop / mps-restart), or using --kill -f if it is hung.
One possible workaround to abort long-running or stuck requests is by setting a global request timeout in main_config as follows:
--request-timeout=60
This acts on all requests/jobs rather than on a single request. This setting will automatically kill any request that runs longer than 60 seconds.
For more information please refer to the following documentation links:
mps-stop and –kill: https://www.mathworks.com/help/mps/server/mpsstop.html
request-timeout property: https://www.mathworks.com/help/mps/server/mps.configuration-properties.html#bve31j2
Hope this is helpful!
