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Spectrum LSF

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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

Add additional bhist information about personnel who modified the LSF job

Enhance bhist to show who modifies the job. The information is not presented in JOB_MODIFY2 event record. Current user info in JOB_MODIFY2 is job owner and user auth for remote job in MC
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future 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

Reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason

"LSF does not support reporting both host-based pending reason and main pending reason (about license)." Let me provide a portion of the bsub statement from our case to exemplify the customer's dilemma. bsub -R "rusage[mem=3000.00:duration=1m,md_r...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

mbatchd log job submission rejection

It is helpful to have job submission rejection logging to log file so we can set up monitor to size the issue and early warning alert of scale of issue
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Not under consideration

LSF Smart Memory Limit & Docker integration

Enabling the Smart Memory Limit conflicts with the Docker integration settings - in that, you cannot have both enabled at the same time. We believe the offending (Docker) config line is:LSB_RESOURCE_ENFORCE="cpu memory"
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF: tmp (in tmpfs) monitoring when cgroup enabled

when cgroup is enabled on both OS & LSF, it's now possible to account tmp usage for jobs when /tmp FS is in tmpfs. ("cache" value of "memory.stat" cgroup file, that can be excluded from swap using "LSB_CGROUP_MEM_INCLUDE_CACHE" parameter) Is i...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

Multiple esubs (master + remote) in a multicluster setup

We use LSF in a multicluster configuration. We also use an esub to dynamically assign which jobs are sent to each cluster. As far as I'm aware, only one esub (on the master) can be used. We would like to have functionality for esubs on the remote ...
almost 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

badmin appclose/appopen for maintenance of a specific application

For maintenance reasons it would be helpful to close/open applications for dispatching like for queues and hosts by the command badmin qclose/qopen and badmin hclose/hopen respectively.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

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