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Array job maximum running jobs should be honored across multiclustered environments

Our users submit array jobs, but due to many factors may want to limit the number of running tasks at a time, not only from the source cluster, but total running jobs of that array for all clusters involved ( we have many clusters that use multicl...
29 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

service classes not passed on through multi-cluster

We have a need to pass on the service classes of jobs that are attached to them from the sending cluster to the receiving cluster so we can ensure the guaranteed resource pools are using the SLA. If a sending cluster has jobs with sla's attached (...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

json output for "badmin lsfproxyd status"

The new solution LSFProxyd does not dump status in json file. This RFE is to enable json output of "badmin lsfproxyd status" command.
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Telemetry for LSF scheduler performance

LSF struggles in large farms with many running pending jobs and thousands of users in fairshare tree. LSF's struggle with heavy query activity is well documented. It would be great if LSF can provide telemetry on its own performance and what speci...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

lsf proxyd logging in log file

From the documentations, it seems LSF proxyd is currently showing its logs from perfmon view style of command and this RFE is to enable lsf proxyd logging same as other daemons are logging currently. e.g. mbatchd.log, mbschd.log.. similarly we sho...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

weighted throttling in lsf proxyd

From the documentations it seems, LSF Proxyd does not differentiates between a service account vs an individual user account and can't have diff policies for diff user accounts. Our farms have a good mix of service accounts which launch thousands ...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Listening to jobstates

We submit our jobs to LSF with the LSF API (C++, lsbatch.h). Our software has to give a feedback to the users about the current state of the jobs. For this query we call lsb_readjobinfo for each active job in our list. It can take a long time to c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

Multi-cluster pre-exec failure should kill job from source cluster

These documents make it look like this issue is addressed, but they are not functioning as they should. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=lsbparams-remote-max-preexec-retry https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

Add fields to bhosts -o output

Add total memory and memory reserved columns for bhosts -o option.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered