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Workspace Spectrum LSF
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 15, 2014

TERM_ORPHAN_SYSTEM or "-ti" bsub option not killing all orphaned jobs

The customer is expecting LSF to distinguish job killed when pending (NEVER_RUN) and job killed after started.

A job cannot be treated as "exited" if cancelled while pending. exit/exit status/exit code are for a running process.
In LL, job has a status called (NOT_RUN/CANCELED).

Two possible solutions:
1) add a new job state to distinguish exit and killed while pending
or
2) internally while job dependency is on job exit code "exit(job_id,<10)", make sure the job is started

Option 2 is preferred. I believe option 1 would require users to check for the NOT_RUN status which is no different then checking for the started status. Also adding a new job status would affect many different areas of the code and documentation.

  • Guest
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    Nov 3, 2014

    Marty,

    From your example, job2 is killed due to it being an orphan, job3 should also be auto killed due to it being an orphan.

    The example you have given does not match the design behaviour, nor the behaviour observed in our test cluster, so this appears to be a bug.

    Can you open a PMR to address it?

    -Bill

    Bill McMillan, Global Product Portfolio Manager for the Platform LSF Family & MPI

  • Guest
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    Oct 16, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #60683 in product Platform LSF.