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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 12, 2018

To enable increase in the memory for a job when overall memory resource limit is in place in lsb.resources

Case#Case number TS001621460 can be referred for this RFE.

Explanation was: I have discussed with development team again, currently, LSF can not satisfy the increase memory request by bmod command for a running job when there is a general limit defined in lsb.resources. This should be a limitation. Because the general limit defined in lsb.resources which is handled by scheduler, but bmod is handled by mbatchd. When bmod a job, mbatchd cannot know whether the operation will break general limit, so it rejects the request directly. This behavior is introduced together with lsb.resources and hasn't changed ever since. I totally agree with you that it should be re-considered from user point of view especially when the user just have one job running and want to enlarger the memory usage.