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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...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Enhance bmod to not allow modifying a jobs memory reservation to not exceed the total additional reservable memory on the host if the job is running

This is important if a users wants to either decrease of increase a memory reservation for a running job. We have some applications that reserved multiple CPU's and large amounts of memory. These jobs are long tailed, and once they reach the long ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

LSF 10.1 fix 601504 the rate limiter

There is a request for the rate limiter(LSF_PROXYD_PORT). All batch queries (bsub, bhosts, bjobs, bqueues, etc) connect lsfproxyd daemons to request token first. When they get token, mbatchd respond them and transmit data to these commands. These ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support Host Based ELIM Total/Available and Reservation information in JSON output

In Fix Pack 14, the bhosts command has been enhanced to support the "-o all -json" option, and thank you. However, what is missing are the host level ELIM Total/Available and Reserved values that you can currently only obtain through the "bhosts -...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Allows Session Scheduler Account Directory and moving parts to support the lsf.conf variable LSB_STDOUT_DIRECT.

We recently were able to confirm that if the user leaves off the SSCHED_ACCT_DIR in lsb.params, that they can set the same as an environment variable, and eventually the Session Scheduler account file will end up in that location, but the users re...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support JSON Output Format for the LSB Stream File

We have a number of downstream uses for the LSB Stream file. One of the downsides of the current format is that it can be difficult to read and parse. If this file where had an options to be written in JSON format, it would be much easier to consu...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

install libnsl automatically during LSF installation

In RHEL8, I found the follows error. [root@rhel86 lsf]# lsadmin limstartup lsadmin: error while loading shared libraries: libnsl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And I found "Known issues" part in LSF guide ment...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Now that Symphony Advanced Edition is properly reporting RSS and VSZ for tasks please update LSF Session Scheduler accounting log to include RSS and VSZ

Currently, the Session Scheduler accounting log always reports VSZ and RSS as Zero. It would be nice to report the actual numbers. I know from my Symphony training that the same was also true with EGO and resolved roughly 3 years ago. It would be ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Log a message at INFO level at the end of an event switch

The only way to know that you are currently at the end of an event switch is to switch to the logdir and see that the temporary event log files have been removed. It would be nice to have a log message at INFO level that informs the administrator ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Prevent Parallel Restart if MBATCHD is either in the middle of a event switch or within a predefined period of being in an event switch

Basically, when you do a parallel restart either in the middle of an event switch or just before one, the event switch happens in the foreground and not in the background as designed. This may be a bug, but in any event, if you prevent, or warn no...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration