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Spectrum LSF

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LSF Default Memory UNIT display issue in bacct command

In our production cluster LSF_UNIT_FOR_LIMITS=MBis defined.When we are fetching bacct information then we can see below: Accounting information about this job:Share group charged </jayaward>CPU_T WAIT TURNAROUND STATUS HOG_FACTOR MEM SWAP300...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

Graph visibility for shared host groups in different queues

We have sharing of hostgroup resources in our cluster like below : eshwloginlpp024.emea.nsn-net.net @ /metaroot : bqueues -l bUSERS: all HOSTS: hg_batch_rh7_he6+5 hg_batch_rh7_telia+5 hg_gpu_he6/ hg_gpu_telia/ eshwloginlpp024.emea.nsn-net.net @ /m...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Provide ability to dump sequence of jobs ids considered by LSF scheduler for dispatch during a dispatch cycle

An old job which is pending in LSF may continue to remain pending with the reason "Individual host based reasons" while newer jobs continue to get scheduled. This may happen due to queue priority and fairshare settings. When running 'badmin diagno...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 0 Future consideration

LSF service protection for queries

Before I explain it,this feature request is very important to us because it affects the entire LSF service.If these features are provided, we believe that we can achieve higher safety for our LSF products. Suddenly there was a mbatchd load issue w...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 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

Improve Session Scheduler by Supporting Per Job Accounting File Location

Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job specific accounting file location. Discussion: There is a lsb.params variable for the session scheduler account directory. That’s well and good, but it’s not in a very accessible location. It would be better...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance Session Scheduler Task Accounting File Options

Going over the available documentation on Session Scheduler, I’ve found a few gap under a single class of gap that will limit adoption, though I must say, the solution is not that far off from perfect. Main Issue: Unable to define a user/job speci...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

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