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Spectrum LSF

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When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. T

When a job is running and stopped by "bstop" command, the slots of the suspended job can not be used by other pending jobs. The behavior is not reasonable because it causes the computing resources are wasted. We request the slots of the suspended ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

prevent LSF docker jobs from failing with unuseful error message

When submitting docker jobs, using LSF (with the -app bsub option), the entire user's env is sent directly to the docker-current command (with the --env-file docker option), even though the docker-current command does not accept certain env variab...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

To be able to kill a specific process from a job

Hello, Sometimes, a job is completely stucked due to a specific process. Customer doesn't want to kill the whole job because he is waiting for the result of job. Would it possible to add the ability to kill a specific process from a job without ki...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

LSF should always reject submitting jobs which request slots over slot limit.

A job with over limit slot request still can be submitted when the slot limit is configured with USERS. For example: With SUERS configured, job can be submitted and stays pending: Begin Limit NAME = TestQueueSiJobLimit QUEUES = priority SLOTS = 3 ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

bjgroup: option to select user (OWNER)

add -u option to bjgroup command to filter output by OWNER. show only user jobgroup for a given user (like bjobs), used '-u all' to show all.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

preemption

We're going to use the preemption through the following settings. Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test99PRIORITY = 99HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTIVE[test1]End Queue Begin QueueQUEUE_NAME = test1PRIORITY = 1HOSTS = allPREEMPTION = PREEMPTABLE[test99]TER...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

bkill instrumentation/logging to find source

Currently the bkill command only tracks (lsb.events) who ran it, and what signal was sent. If we have a heavily active user with a broken script, it is very challenging to find the source of the bkill command. It would be valuable to log the sourc...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

RTM License monitor

Case TS001211168 - Created - RTM License Dashboard We have been bring up license monitoring on RTM and ts working great. We would like to get more of a readers digest view for the users that list how many licenses we have and how many are checked ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

LSF should store accounting data in database

The lsb.acct log file format is anachronistic and hard for customers to deal with. To get the LSF accounting data into a relational database customers have to write their own code to parse lsb.acct files (ether via custom code such as perl/python,...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration