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Search results: Spectrum LSF

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The number of TCP exceeds the max number 2*200 defined in LSF source code

We're getting the following message from master lim.log.doAcceptConn: Can't maintain this big clientMap[400], Connection from 10.230.236.102:36587 dropped And I received the following explanation and advice through case number TS003933691. It look...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

provide a mechanism to avoid manually inserting hash code into thold.php and settings.php for new thold alerts to view details.

When we add our own thold alerts, we must add manually the hash code recorded into a mysql table into thold.php and settings.php scripts to be able to display details. Can you please redesign the code to avoid these steps ?
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Delivered

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

Recommended patch report code

The pversions command should have an option to output a code, like an md5sum, that enables admins to enter it in the support portal to find what patches are recommended for their server. In addition to (https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 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

Jobs that get into PSUSP state because they reached MAX_JOB_REQUEUE cannot be killed by an appropriate JOB_CONTROL mechanism

Answer from PMR: For the PSUSP jobs JOB_CONTROL can not work on PSUSP job. We have checked the source code in these days and found that 1. LSF doesn't set any environment variable when a job reaches its requeue limit and be put into PSUSP status 2...
about 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

[clearcase] bjobs and bsub should provide reason why job did not start on exec host

We use Platform LSF 9.1 in conjunction with ClearCase. In situations where CC is not working on the execution host, LSF provides a misleading message (a bug) as well as insufficient information to determine that the execution host has a problem. S...
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Delivered

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Relax GPU affinity while maintaining Core affinity

Prior to the introduction of the LSB_GPU_NEW_SYNTAX=extend it was possible to have jobs using core affinity and be assigned to cores on a cpu that is not directly connected to the gpu that was assigned to the job. After the introduction it will al...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Accouting lsf : problem with max memory

Wen Chao MH Hao asked me to create a RFE for a bug in the accounting lsf.We have a hot-fix to calculate the maxRMem to a correct value when the value exceeds a value (put to 0). But we don't have anything when the value is negative. From: Wen Chao...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered