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Spectrum LSF

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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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Delivered

allow to limit cpu usage to the number of slots requested

Hello,, currently, when a user submit a job, there's no way in LSF to limit the cpu consumption. recently, we discover that it's possible to limit cpu usage OS side using cgroup, by putting a value in the 'cpu.cfs_quota_us' file of the '/sys/fs/...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 2 Delivered

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...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered

Multi-cluster pre-exec failure should kill job from source cluster

These documents make it look like this issue is addressed, but they are not functioning as they should. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=lsbparams-remote-max-preexec-retry https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-lsf/10.1.0?topic=...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

expansion of bhosts -o

Being able to see the currently available and reserved memory values for a host[group] requires a 'bhosts -l' report. It would be very nice to report something like: $ bhosts -o 'HOST_NAME mem mem_reserved' [host_name ... | host_group ... | comput...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Delivered

Add fields to bhosts -o output

Add total memory and memory reserved columns for bhosts -o option.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Enable DataManager to work properly when LSF usermapping is in place

When jobs were submitted with -data option and an account mapping is existing between the submission and execution cluster (MC) DM is not able to retrieve the data correctly.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

Extend Job Report Mail to only include terminated jobs

Customer wants job report mail to go for a subset of jobs where the job was terminated for various reasons such as CPU limit, Memory limit, etc.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Delivered

Customize job submission output

Customer wants the bsub output to only include the JobID instead of Job is submitted to default queue .
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Delivered

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