Administering Platform LSF - SAS

Automatically Checkpointing Jobs
Automatically Checkpointing Jobs
Automatically checkpointing jobs involves submitting a job to a queue that is
configured for periodic checkpointing. To configure a queue, edit lsb.queues
and specify a checkpoint directory and a checkpoint period for the CHKPNT
parameter for a queue. The checkpoint directory must already exist, LSF will
not create the directory. The checkpoint period is specified in minutes. All jobs
submitted to the queue will be automatically checkpointed. For example, to
configure a queue to periodically checkpoint jobs every 4 hours (240 minutes)
to a directory named my_dir:
Begin Queue
...
CHKPNT=my_dir 240
DESCRIPTION=Auto chkpnt every 4 hrs (240 min) to my_dir
...
End Queue
All jobs submitted to a queue configured for checkpointing can also be
checkpointed using bchkpnt. Jobs submitted and modified using -k, -r, -p,
and -kn options override queue configured options.
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