IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 Fix 485700 Readme File 

Abstract

P102528. Fix to prevent jobs from failing to run due to a syscall failure on ARM v8 hosts while MEMLIMIT or SWAPLIMIT is set at the queue level.

Description

Readme documentation for IBM Spectrum LSF 10.1 Fix 485700 including installation-related instructions, prerequisites and co-requisites, and list of fixes.

This fix addresses the following issue:

On ARM v8 hosts,  after the first job starts to run, all later jobs fail to run under the following conditions. 

1. The local sbatchd is restarted.

2. MEMLIMIT=32768 or SWAPLIMIT=32768 is set at the queue level 

3. cgroup support is enabled, according to the following parameters in the lsf.conf file:

LSF_PROCESS_TRACKING=Y

LSF_LINUX_CGROUP_ACCT=Y

LSB_RESOURCE_ENFORCE=“memory cpu”

Readme File for: IBM® Spectrum LSF

Product/Component Release: 10.1

Update Name: Fix 485700

Fix ID: LSF-10.1-build485700

Publication Date: 26 March 2018

Last Modified Date: 26 March 2018

Contents

1. List of Fixes

2. Download Location

3. Product or Components Affected

4. System Requirements

5. Installation and Configuration

6. List of Files

7. Product Notifications

8. Copyright and Trademark Information

1. List of Fixes

P102528

2. Download Locations

Download Fix 485700 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/eserver/support/fixes/

3. Product or Components Affected

Affected product or components include:

LSF/res LSF/sbatchd

4. System Requirements

linux3.12-glibc2.17-armv8

5. Installation and Configuration

5.1 Before installation

(LSF_TOP=Full path to the top-level installation directory of LSF.) 

1) Log on to the LSF master host as root 

2) Set your environment: 

- For csh or tcsh: % source LSF_TOP/conf/cshrc.lsf 

- For sh, ksh, or bash: $ . LSF_TOP/conf/profile.lsf 

5.2 Installation steps

1) Go to the patch install directory: cd $LSF_ENVDIR/../10.1/install/ 

2) Copy the patch file to the install directory $LSF_ENVDIR/../10.1/install/ 

3) Run patchinstall: ./patchinstall <patch> 

4) Run badmin qinact all

5.3 After installation

1) Log on to the LSF master host as root 

2) Run lsadmin resrestart all

3) Run badmin hrestart all

4) Run badmin qact all

5.4 Uninstallation

1) Log on to the LSF master host as root 

2) Go to the patch install directory: cd $LSF_ENVDIR/../10.1/install/ 

3) Run badmin qinact all

4) Run ./patchinstall -r <patch> 

5) Run lsadmin resrestart all

6) Run badmin hrestart all

7) Run badmin qact all

6. List of Files

res sbatchd

7. Product Notifications

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8. Copyright and Trademark Information

©Copyright IBM Corporation 2018

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