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Spectrum LSF

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In the 'License Scheduler' product, monitor only necessary features instead of all

Hello, sometimes, we encounter slowness (freezes) on LSF jobs scheduling due to big slowness in licenses monitoring (lmstat) from License Scheduler because license features used for some resources under LS management are part of license services m...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 6 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...
8 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Enable bjobs to report peak CPU efficiency

Need to be able to retrieve the peak CPU efficiency from the bjobs command at the end of the run.
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 Delivered

Add bkill option that will set the job status to DONE rather than EXIT

Currently all jobs terminated via bkill are set to status EXIT. With the growing usage of bioinformatics tools and applications that were traditionally run on dedicated servers being integrated into use on HPC resources there is a shifting paradig...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 4 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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

Group jobs to same cluster when using bsub -cluster feature

Goal: Group together lsf jobs, "regression", in such a way that bsub -cluster feature directs all jobs in the group to the same cluster. Proposal: a) bsub submits all jobs in a job array to a single cluster bsub -cluster all -J "ArrayName[1-10]" /...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 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 (...
12 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

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...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 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/...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

bkill command enhancement

We need to use bkill command to kill a specific user's pending jobs. However, there's no such a option for bkill.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 3 Delivered