View source for RUNLIMIT Bug - Patching LSF

===== LSF CPULIMIT, RUNLIMIT bug =====
* Bug Desription
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When a job is submitted with the option -W, confused information is generated if a very large RUNLIMIT value is used:
bsub -W 99999:00 sleep 10
Output: Bad CPU limit specification. Job not submitted. 
<<<Confusing; RUN limit was specified and not CPU limit as output indicates.>>>
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===== Solution provided by Platform =====
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Platform provided a patch to LSF; file lsf7Update6_linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-169404.tar.Z
File was stored in the directory:
..\pdd_data\Product Development\High Performance Computing\HPC SoftwareInformation\Platform\HPC_EE\Patches
Below are intructions to apply the patch.
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* Download LSF patch file
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# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Download the LSF patch file and copy it to a shared directory; eg /depot/shared
# Make sure NOT TO uncompress or untar the package and/or file.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

ftp ftp://ftp.platform.com

#username: lsfuser
#password: 8sF7G?w
#PATH: patches/7.0.6/patch/build169404
#File: lsf7Update6_linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-169404.tar.Z

cd $LSF_TOP_DIR/7.0/install
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* Verify the patch package and/or file and apply patch to your cluster using the script patchinstall
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#-----------------
#Verify patch file
#-----------------

./patchinstall -c full-path-to-patchfile-in-shared-dir

#----------------
#Apply patch file
#----------------

./patchinstall full-path-to-patchfile-in-shared-dir
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* Restart LSF
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# On the headnode
/etc/init.d/lsf_daemons restart

# On all cluster nodes
pdsh -a "/etc/init.d/lsf_daemons restart"
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