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Make Queue Open/Close/Act/Inact 'all' Requests a single event

We recently had a serious issue that required us to close/inact all of our queues, and then perform a database repair using the IBM support tool. However, when we started LSF, all but one of the queues was Open/Act again. This was due to the suppo...

5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

1 VOTE

Make the TCP Backlog for the MBATCH and MBATCHD Query Port Configurable for Large Clusters

We have been monitoring the TCP backlogs for LIM, MBD, and the Query port for some time, and there are periods where the MBD query port becomes overloaded resulting in a higher than expected count of UNKNOWN and sometimes eventually ZOMBI jobs, an...

5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

1 VOTE

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use. It would be nice to have a setting such as: MA...

5 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

9 VOTE

FairShare User/Project internal data size limitation

As per the support case - we are hitting the limitation on how many users/projects we can have defined in our most complex cluster in ARM. This is causing us to have to be very careful with any adjustments / updates and stop using automation and m...

over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

1 VOTE

Improve Job Priority Output to Exceed 1e6 as APS can easily increase Per Job Priority above that value

There is currently a system limitation that Job Priories above 1e6 do not display correctly when using bjobs -o "blah" formatted output. This is currently causing us a monitoring issue when attempting to order jobs with a very high dynamic priorit...

6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

1 VOTE

About bjobs in different clusters

Suppose there are two clusters. These two clusters are being used by one business division. However, users who submit jobs are not aware of the cluster. They don't know what cluster they're using and they don't know that they need sourcing fo...

6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

5 VOTE

Set user limit for app in lsb.application like USERS field for queues in lsb.queues

It would be useful to set a list of users that can use APPS defined in lsb.applications like USERS filed il queues definition in lsb.queues.

over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

1 VOTE

fix systemctl script to restart sbatchd

The root sbatchd crashes frequently in our cluster (and without anything useful in the log), but systemctl is not configured to restart the daemon. Please see the details in the related support case, but essentially we need to make it so this daem...

6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1

2 VOTE

bhosts and lshosts should have an option to let them perform more like the scheduler

Currently, if I have a host with two exclusive resources in the lsf.cluster file <hostname> <model> <type> 1 () () () (!res1 !res2) If I run the following bhosts command, it acts like "grep" instead of like the scheduler, and rep...

about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

1 VOTE

Support Multi-threaded LIM with a Shared Memory Database for Scalability

It would be nice if LSF's LIM used a shared memory database and could accept multiple threads instead of having to constantly fork itself to return client data. The new setting to increase/decrease the LIM connection backlog was informative, but i...

6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

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