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Spectrum LSF

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Filter completed/exited jobs with unusual high resource usage

Many times we would find jobs with unusual resource usage, like very high swap usage or mem usage or too big cpu seconds and it gets captured in lsf.acct or lsf.event files.There is no utility available to filter out such exception jobs other than...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Include EXIT_REASON as field in lsf_job_status index

Clear EXIT reason for all exited jobs is not present in lsf_job_acct index. There are already present fields like except_mask, exit_info, exit_status in lsf_job_acct through which we can calculate exit_reason but doing it at visualization layer ne...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

lsgrun support for unix groups transfer and more than 16 unix groups

lsgrun is massively used by software editor to start shared daemons (between all user jobs or other user jobs running on the same exec host) excluded from job accounting. In some cases, these daemons need to preserve user unix groups list for insu...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Set the maximum pending jobs/tasks limitation for forwarding jobs for users.

Set the maximum pending jobs/tasks limitation for forwarding jobs for users.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Fixed chart of specific filter conditions

On LSF Explorer chart, we can not create charts with pre-selected filter conditions. E.g,Assuming that there are 3 to 4 filter conditions on chart.User A always selects a specific filter condition.So I want to create a new chart with these filters...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Extend time period that historical run time is tracked for fairshare

We use historical run time as the main component of fairshare to determine job priority and ensure that users receive the appropriate amount of run time on our clusters. The current behavior in LSF with respect to historical run time is that any t...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Extend bsub - send mail on job error only

Our engineering customers like to have the possibility to configure when a jobmail will be send at the end of a job. Today "bsub -N" will always sends a mail. Our custome would like to retrieve mails only if the job didn't succeed (exited, killed,...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Application in a Limit of lsb.resources

I'd like to set application-level in a Limit of lsb.resources. But I think Limit of lsb.resources is the queues base, so there is no apps in Consumer parameters. What do you think of application parameter in a Limit of lsb.resources? Could you add...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

bkill option for running jobs only

bkill option for killing only running jobs
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

FLexlm timeouts

The timeout define for license services is used both for collect timeout and lmstat (-t option) timeout. can you please create a new field in the license service editor (${RTM_TOP}/cacti/plugins/license/lic_servers.php?action=edit&service_id=1...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered