Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Load Indices
Interactive idle time (it)
Temporary directories (tmp)
Swap space (swp)
Memory (mem)
I/O rate (io)
On UNIX, the it index is the interactive idle time of the host, in minutes. Idle
time is measured from the last input or output on a directly attached terminal
or a network pseudo-terminal supporting a login session. This does not include
activity directly through the X server such as CAD applications or emacs
windows, except on Solaris and HP-UX systems.
On Windows NT, the it index is based on the time a screen saver has been
active on a particular host.
The tmp index is the space available in MB on the file system that contains the
temporary directory:
◆ /tmp on UNIX
◆ C:\temp on Windows NT
The swp index gives the currently available virtual memory (swap space) in
MB. This represents the largest process that can be started on the host.
The mem index is an estimate of the real memory currently available to user
processes. This represents the approximate size of the largest process that
could be started on a host without causing the host to start paging.
LIM reports the amount of free memory available. LSF calculates free memory
as a sum of physical free memory, cached memory, buffered memory and an
adjustment value. The command vmstat also reports free memory but displays
these values separately. There may be a difference between the free memory
reported by LIM and the free memory reported by vmstat because of virtual
memory behavior variations among operating systems. You can write an ELIM
that overrides the free memory values returned by LIM.
The io index measures I/O throughput to disks attached directly to this host,
in KB per second. It does not include I/O to disks that are mounted from other
hosts.
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