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Administration

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Free up a job slot if lsfadmin suspends a job

We wold like to have the ability to free up a job slot when a lsfadmin suspends a job due to some valid reasons. In our case, we are trying to run a script to check if the user has reached the quota on their current run directory, and if they are ...
almost 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Future consideration

LSF should support mapping resources to host group(s)

We need to map 200 dynamic gpu resources to all 120 gpu nodes due to gpu auto config is not supported in RHEL6. In the current latest LSF 10.1.0.9, we have to add 120 host names to each of 200 resources. This makes lsf.cluster file very messy. And...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

INQUEUE PREEMPTION

Because "Preemption scheduling" is actually for the jobs in different queues. LSF today has no such feature or concept of in-queue preemption. the new feature maybe work like this: define a INQUEUE_PREEMPT=[[userA,80%] [userB,20%]] ... For example...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Email notification when a job is suspended

Customer would like to receive notification when a job has been suspended and resumed either via a threshold or preemption/resumption by License Scheduler.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration / License Management 0 Not under consideration

candidate host pending reason

It's about pending reason hostname. Current pending reason as below. These 3 hosts are not in host group of this queue, but they are in candidate host list. PENDING REASONS: Candidate host pending reasons (18 of 7574 hosts): Job slot limit reached...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow `lsadmin reconfig`to run in batch mode for only the master candidate hosts

`lsadmin reconfig` cannot be run in unattended mode only on master and master candidate hosts. It would be nice to have such an option. `lsadmin limrestart pf host1 host2` is not an acceptable replacement for this functionality. For details see "U...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

brequeue on zombie jobs please

a machine crashed on an on-premise cluster leaving many jobs in a UNKWN state. as described here [https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027518] i tried bkill -r twice then brequeue -e, but got the error message "Job has already fini...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

bhosts -o "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource"

I'd like to see "non shared dynamic numeric elim resource" info from bhosts -o. bhosts -o can only view LSF embedded resources.(as previously defined)"bhosts -o "field_name[:[-][output_width]]" lsload -o could tell us non-shared resource status. B...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

advance 'system' reservation and host status

advance 'system' reservation and host status
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

blimits -n to select multiple limit name

blimits man pages says that's possible to select multiple limit names but it's not functional. can you please implement this functionality ?
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration