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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>===== LSF CPULIMIT, RUNLIMIT bug =====<br />
* Bug Desription<br />
<pre><br />
When a job is submitted with the option -W, confused information is generated if a very large RUNLIMIT value is used:<br />
bsub -W 99999:00 sleep 10<br />
Output: Bad CPU limit specification. Job not submitted. <br />
<<<Confusing; RUN limit was specified and not CPU limit as output indicates.>>><br />
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===== Solution provided by Platform =====<br />
<pre><br />
Platform provided a patch to LSF; file lsf7Update6_linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-169404.tar.Z<br />
File was stored in the directory:<br />
..\pdd_data\Product Development\High Performance Computing\HPC SoftwareInformation\Platform\HPC_EE\Patches<br />
Below are intructions to apply the patch.<br />
</pre><br />
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* Download LSF patch file<br />
<syntaxhighlight><br />
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
# Download the LSF patch file and copy it to a shared directory; eg /depot/shared<br />
# Make sure NOT TO uncompress or untar the package and/or file.<br />
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />
<br />
ftp ftp://ftp.platform.com<br />
<br />
#username: lsfuser<br />
#password: 8sF7G?w<br />
#PATH: patches/7.0.6/patch/build169404<br />
#File: lsf7Update6_linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64-169404.tar.Z<br />
<br />
cd $LSF_TOP_DIR/7.0/install<br />
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* Verify the patch package and/or file and apply patch to your cluster using the script patchinstall<br />
<syntaxhighlight><br />
#-----------------<br />
#Verify patch file<br />
#-----------------<br />
<br />
./patchinstall -c full-path-to-patchfile-in-shared-dir<br />
<br />
#----------------<br />
#Apply patch file<br />
#----------------<br />
<br />
./patchinstall full-path-to-patchfile-in-shared-dir<br />
</syntaxhighlight><br />
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* Restart LSF<br />
<syntaxhighlight><br />
# On the headnode<br />
/etc/init.d/lsf_daemons restart<br />
<br />
# On all cluster nodes<br />
pdsh -a "/etc/init.d/lsf_daemons restart"<br />
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