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Spectrum LSF

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chunking: runtime limit (-W bsub option) & estimated runtime (-We) conflict

when a runtime limit and an estimated runtime are set for a job, only the highest value is considered for chunking. if you want to submit short jobs in chunk and you want to set a runtime limit to kill these jobs when they don't end and this runti...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

LSF enforced limits

LSF currently inherits the environment (limits) from the system when the LSF Daemons are started, and doesn't compensate based on whether the LSF daemons are started by process 1 (init) or by root. If LSF is configured to startup as part of the sy...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

TCP keepalive requested for multicluster over WAN

For LSF Multi Cluster, I request an option to enable TCP keepalive on all long-lived connections. It is perfectly fine if I have to enable it manually in a config file.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Need LSF increase rusage string limit

the rusage string could be very large, say 10,000 characters, currently it ony supports 511characters.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 6 Delivered

Improve the robustness of ClearCase/LSF Wrapper

The current implementation of the ClearCase/LSF wrapper is not robust. It does not check for instance if a ClearCase setview passes or fails. At times when a ClearCase view server process is rather busy yhe setview operation might fail and since w...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Additional filter option for job list

Provide an additional text box for the filter that will allow searching for jobs/groups in the list based on their name and the string supplied.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Need bhosts show extra information about the LSF host status even the host is returned back to EGO

When a host is in closed_EGO or unreach state, how can the admin know this host has ever been closed by LSF(badmin hclose) before EGO takes back the host or host rejoin after the host removal out of cluster. It's true the admin can check the lsb e...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

to enable EGO resource close&claim for LSF jobs

the CLI of egosh resource reclaim does not work for LSF workload
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

To report Total & reserved & used memory graph through rpt_hardware_raw table

We would like to report graphically reserved, used, total memory by LSF cluster from rpt_hardware_raw table. There is MEM_REQ field in rpt_jobmart_raw table & is related to job but that doesn't give picture by LSF cluster.
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

RTM: license server name truncated

A license server name longer 45 char which is truncated when I save it in the lic add form. It seems this is due to the server_name filed of the lic_services table limited to 45 char when name field in many others table (like lic_servers) are limi...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered