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When setting LSF_STRICT_CHECKING=N, an option is needed to suppress the warning messages during reconfig, ckconfig, or mbdrestart.

Customers hope to waive those relevant warning messages to avoid the management process.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

The LSFProxy does not print a 'total' count as 'badmin perfmon view' does leading to misreading of the number of total events since restarting

In 'badmin perfmon view', we always are able to see the total events for a specific output class. This is not possible in 'badmin lsfproxyd status' output. Please add that output. Specifically, we can see average/min/max rejections from proxyd, an...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

Integrate lsadmin/badmin/bctrld to work with systemd in >= LSF 10.1SP14

Starting in SP14, if we wish to take advantage of individual daemon monitoring for res, sbatchd and lim on server nodes we have to follow the following caveat: Note that once you use systemctl commands to control these daemons, do not use the exis...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

Provide lsmake parallel compilation tool for aarch64 systems.

Our engineers make wide-spread use of lsmake to parallelise their compilations across our x86 nodes, and wish to use the same toolset on aarch64 nodes.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

Allow 'ssacct' to work without specifying a file path when the session is still running

Currently Session Scheduler's 'ssacct' command works without the -f option only when the Session is finished. LSF knows where the account file is when the job is running, so why can we not see the account output when the session is running?
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

Email disable for mbatchd and enable for sbatchd

Currently , there is no way to seperately disable mbatchd emails v/s sbatchd emails. Means. We have set email set to N in lsf.conf , so that by default job report emails are not sent. However some users who need email can set in their environment ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

lshosts -gpu gives 'Segmentation fault'

After LSF upgrade to 10.1.0.13 and applying patch lsf10.1_lnx310-lib217-x86_64-601448.tar.Z getting error in lshosts -gpu command. We have added below lines in lsf.conf which are conflicting with the patch. We have commented the lines and checked ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered

Would like a way to stop/suspend/resume a task inside a Session Scheduler job

This would be pretty useful for debugging a broken task or one that needs to be suspended for a time.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration Delivered