LIM provides critical services to all LSF components. In addition to the timely collection of resource information, LIM provides host selection and job placement policies. If you are using IBM MultiCluster, LIM determines how different clusters should exchange load and resource information. You can tune LIM policies and parameters to improve performance.
LIM uses load thresholds to determine whether to place remote jobs on a host. If one or more LSF load indices exceeds the corresponding threshold (too many users, not enough swap space, etc.), then the host is regarded as busy and LIM will not recommend jobs to that host. You can also tune LIM load thresholds.
There are two main goals in adjusting LIM configuration parameters: improving response time, and reducing interference with interactive use. To improve response time, tune LSF to correctly select the best available host for each job. To reduce interference, tune LSF to avoid overloading any host.
LIM policies are advisory information for applications. Applications can either use the placement decision from LIM, or make further decisions that are based on information from LIM.
Most of the LSF interactive tools use LIM policies to place jobs on the network. LSF uses load and resource information from LIM and makes its own placement decisions based on other factors in addition to load information.
Files that affect LIM are lsf.shared, lsf.cluster.cluster_name, where cluster_name is the name of your cluster.
LIM thresholds and run windows affect the job placement advice of LIM. Job placement advice is not enforced by LIM.
The RUNWINDOW parameter defined in lsf.cluster.cluster_name specifies one or more time windows during which a host is considered available. If the current time is outside all the defined time windows, the host is considered locked and LIM will not advise any applications to run jobs on the host.