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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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Ability to disable job requeuing in google resource connector when jobs exit with TERM_RC_RECLAIM

We have jobs that should not be requeued after partially running due to corrupting the job output data. We would like to have a queue level parameter to disable requeuing of jobs that exit for TERM_RC_RECLAIM. To be consistent with other features,...
5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Implement initial memory reservation and res_req in jobInfoEnt structure

Hello, We can get initial memory reservation and initial res_req using bhist command but it can take a while.I have noticed that initial number of reserved CPUs is recorded in /sw/platform/lsf/10.1/include/lsf/lsbatch.h /*** \brief submit request ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

Effective r15s/r1m/r15m values for job reservations

When using run queue length indices in rusage strings, there should be an option to have the value divided by ncpus. Since in the "total load used for scheduling" the r15s/r1m/r15m are taken from lsload -E and divided by the specific ncpus for tha...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Not under consideration

Request ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics

Request the ability to set the path to lmutil in Platform Analytics for the flexlicusageloader data loader by setting a configuration parameter in flexlicusage.properties. This would make PA consistent with the LSF License Scheduler where the path...
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add Effective Memory Utilization to All Statistics Tables

RTM maintains a consistent set of ETL's across multiple dimensions. It is the same table structure for all of these ETL's. However, a key metric is missing from the ETL's and it's the effective memory utilization. In other words sum(max_memory) /s...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

LSF enforced limits

LSF currently inherits the environment (limits) from the system when the LSF Daemons are started, and doesn't compensate based on whether the LSF daemons are started by process 1 (init) or by root. If LSF is configured to startup as part of the sy...
almost 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Enhancements for "hostsetup"

hostsetup script should be enhanced in the following ways:1) Naming of the startup scripts for SysV init and systemd should be consistent.2) Script should provide option for installing /etc/lsf.sudoers.3) Script should detect /etc/sudoers is prese...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Consistent bjobs time format

The time fields that bjobs offers should report in a consistent hh:mm:ss format. While many of our users are math majors, not all of them are adept at converting seconds to hours:minutes:seconds in their head.
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

HA configuration of Node server for db connection

It's about DCH in PA.I'd like to add a new DB connection host as a fail-over one, like EXEC_HOST in wsm_plc.conf. For the platform analytics, it's using vertica.And vertica db consists of some nodes. Let's suppose we have four nodes. DCH host is l...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered