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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Components License Management
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 24, 2019

License Scheduler ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE + FAST_DISPATCH combination

We are troubled by the slow dispatch time of jobs, when the license scheduler is involved. Even after lengthy optimization, the dispatch time remains at 10-25 seconds, which is not good. (note that LMSTAT time and interval is just 3 seconds).

If the following could be done, perhaps we would be able to further increase performance:
1) ENABLE_DYNAMIC_RUSAGE and FAST_DISPATCH to be used simultaneously (currently not possible).
2) Make the interval of the "DEMAND" which is sent by mbatchd to bld configurable (currently set to 15 seconds, according to IBM feedback).
3) Further optimize job dispatch times when licenses are involved in a way that we haven't thought of.