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Status Delivered
Workspace Spectrum LSF
Components Administration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 1, 2022

Add lsb.params setting to limit the number of times a job can be redispatched upon either a pre-exec failure of job initilization failure

We currently have jobs that will bounce from host to host either based upon a pre-exec failure, or a job initialization failure. This can impact > 500 hosts and cause an increase in MBD memory use.


It would be nice to have a setting such as: MAX_JOB_LAUNCH_FAILURE=20 That would limit the job to 20 start tries before going PSUSP with a suspended reason that the job either could not be launched or the pre-exec failed more than X times.


I know that one of the failure modes is for a user whose user account has been removed causes that same behavior. What's odd is that I know that in Windows, if the users password can not be validated more than X times, the job will go PSUSP, but I'm uncertain if that setting is exposed to the user or not. It seems almost the same thing, but not quite exactly.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)