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Spectrum LSF

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Can blstat add one more column showing pending jobs

If LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB=Y in lsf.conf, license demand is from all pending jobs no matter pending reason.If do not set LSF_LIC_SCHD_RSV_FOR_PEND_JOB in lsf.conf, license demand is from pending jobs with pending reason related license.But b...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

PIM does not calculate memory utilization properly 100% of the time

PIM doesn't detect vfork() 100% of the time for Java 1.8 when checking the threads status. There are times when PIM reads memory value the vfork() as double or triple the actual amount of memory actually being used. I don't think this scenario can...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

fairshare policy within a leaf node of fairshare tree based on application type or project or user

Fairshare applies to the leaf level project code (user group) and within a user the jobs are dispatched on the order in which they are submitted . The order can be altered by changing the priority using "-sp" butt his allows only to specify array3...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Support bimages for podman

Hello, we want to enable users running podman to perform management of images downloaded by the podman. The management includes clean-up of images based on some policy like LRU or any other that user decides. I think bimages is supported for docke...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2 Not under consideration

user max priority issue

When user submits with larger user priority than MAX_USER_PRIORITY, the job should be accepted with MAX_USER_PRIORITY instead of being rejected. So if MAX_USER_PRIORITY is 100, and user submits with -sp 101 it should still take job with job priori...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Job Preemption fails for LSF host(group) based slot limit

LSF based job preemption doesn't work when hitting host/host-group based CPU slot limits.The reason cited by IBM is that in LSF, currently, the system counts the no. of CPU slots for preempted/suspended jobs towards respecting the limit. This is n...
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM - increase maximum export rows dropdown

please increase the maximum number of export rows available (grid_xport_rows) up to at least 200k
about 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

add 'from_host' field in 'Batch Job Filters'

add a new 'From Host' field in the 'Batch Job Filters' of the 'Grid -> Job Info -> Details' view to select jobs submitted from a specific host
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

LSF Cross-Queue Fairshare needs new mode to perform fairshare over multiple prioritized queues

Currently (v9/v10), when crossqueue fairshare (CQFS) w/ DISPATCH_ORDER=queue is enabled, actual job dispatch is based on queue priority which overrides any fairshare calculated priority. In our opinion (and after review with IBM staff), this compl...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

mbatch hang/bsub hang issue caused by slowly resolution

We have experienced the following issues. For more information, please refer to case number TS005350597.If any DNS issue happens, egroup resolution is very slow and mbatchd waits for egroup. egroup resolution slow -> mbatchd wait for egroup -&g...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration