Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Switching Jobs from One Queue to Another
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Switching Jobs from One Queue to Another
You can use the command bswitch to change jobs from one queue to another. This is
useful if you submit a job to the wrong queue, or if the job is suspended because of
queue thresholds or run windows and you would like to resume the job.
Switching a single job
Run bswitch to move pending and running jobs from queue to queue.
In the following example, job 5309 is switched to the
priority queue:
% bswitch priority 5309
Job <5309> is switched to queue <priority>
% bjobs -u all
JOBID USER STAT QUEUE FROM_HOST EXEC_HOST JOB_NAME SUBMIT_TIME
5308 user2 RUN normal hostA hostD /job500 Oct 23 10:16
5309 user2 RUN priority hostA hostB /job200 Oct 23 11:04
5311 user2 PEND night hostA /job700 Oct 23 18:17
5310 user1 PEND night hostB /myjob Oct 23 13:45
Switching all jobs
Run bswitch -q from_queue to_queue 0 to switch all the jobs in a queue to
another queue. The example below selects jobs from the
night queue and switches
them to the
idle queue.
The
-q option is used to operate on all jobs in a queue. The job ID number 0 specifies
that all jobs from the night queue should be switched to the idle queue:
% bswitch -q night idle 0
Job <5308> is switched to queue <idle>
Job <5310> is switched to queue <idle>