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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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LSF: tmp (in tmpfs) monitoring when cgroup enabled

when cgroup is enabled on both OS & LSF, it's now possible to account tmp usage for jobs when /tmp FS is in tmpfs. ("cache" value of "memory.stat" cgroup file, that can be excluded from swap using "LSB_CGROUP_MEM_INCLUDE_CACHE" parameter) Is i...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

About /run/user/$uid

Could you please make "/run/user/$uid" the same for both ssh and interactive jobs? when user logon the host, /run/user/$uid is created by pam_systemd and used for storing files used by running processes for that user. When a user logs out, a...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Not under consideration

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Run LSF file IO operations within the container.

LSF jobs using containers depend on mounts within the container. These mounts are not available on bare metal where LSF runs file operations. The bare metal dependency means that LSF file related operations, -o, -f, -E, -Ep, etc. will not have acc...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

be able to add (and remove) new type of metadata

to manage other metadata that the ones already defined: LSF user extra limit & TTL, license quota, etc ... currently, we must update several scripts & conf files to add (or remove) other metadata type than the built-in ones.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

Add EFA support to AWS Resource Connector

Please add support for EFA-enabled EC2 instances to the AWS Resource Connector. The EFA feature has to be explicitly enabled via command-line arguments / flags to the EC2 API.IBM uses Java code to call the AWS EC2 API, so the feature must be added...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Increase granularity of controls in SECURE_JOB_INFO_LEVEL

In the lsb.params file, an administrator can set the SECURE_JOB_INFO_LEVEL to one of five levels, giving them granular control over what data users can see about other users jobs using the 'bjobs' command. An administrator can also set ENABLE_JOB_...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Cleanup user details with bqueues -lr output if they don't have running/done jobs in system

Currently, we can find thousands of entries for all users even though they have ZERO STARTED jobs as listed in bqueues -lr output. For some of larger farms, these entries are close to 7M records and bqueues -lr takes long time to return the data. ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 3 Delivered

prevent LSF docker jobs from failing with unuseful error message

When submitting docker jobs, using LSF (with the -app bsub option), the entire user's env is sent directly to the docker-current command (with the --env-file docker option), even though the docker-current command does not accept certain env variab...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Add those 'HOSTS:' column for Queues, Pools, and Host Groups as defined in the lsb.* files

RTM does a good job normalizing the display of hosts in each of these categories, but having the raw value, as entered by the administrator is also very useful for operations. Currently, these values are not collected.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration