Platform LSF Administrator's Primer Version 6.2

Checking LSF Status
Platform LSF Administrator’s Primer
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after starting or reconfiguring LSF, wait a few seconds and try bhosts again to give
mbatchd time to initialize. If the problem persists, see “Top 10 LSF problems” on
page 55 for help.
bqueues
LSF Batch queues organize jobs with different priorities and different scheduling
policies.
The
bqueues command displays the status of available queues and their configuration
parameters. For a queue to accept and dispatch jobs, the status should be
Open:Active.
% bqueues
QUEUE_NAME PRIO STATUS MAX JL/U JL/P JL/H NJOBS PEND RUN SUSP
owners 43 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
priority 43 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
night 40 Open:Inact - - - - 0 0 0 0
chkpnt_rerun_qu 40 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
short 35 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
license 33 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
normal 30 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
idle 20 Open:Active - - - - 0 0 0 0
The queue information displayed by bqueues is configured in
LSB_CONFDIR/cluster_name/configdir/lsb.queues. Several queues are
defined by default in
lsb.queues. Modify this file to add, delete, or change queues.
See “Managing Users, Hosts, and Queues” on page 32 for more information about
modifying queues.
bqueues -l
To see more detailed queue information, use bqueues -l:
% bqueues -l normal
QUEUE: normal
-- For normal low-priority jobs, This is the default queue.
PARAMETERS/STATISTICS
PRIO NICE STATUS MAX JL/U JL/P JL/H NJOBS PEND RUN SSUSP USUSP RSV
30 20 Open:Active - - - - 8 8 0 0 0 0
STACKLIMIT MEMLIMIT
2048 K 5000 K
SCHEDULING PARAMETERS
r15s r1m r15m ut pg io ls it tmp swp mem
loadSched - - - - - - - - - - -
loadStop - - - - - - - - - - -
USERS: all users
HOSTS: all hosts used by the LSF Batch system
bqueues -l shows the following kinds of information about the queue:
◆ What kinds of jobs are meant to run on the queue
◆ Resource usage limits