The SGI Comprehensive System Accounting facility (CSA) provides data for collecting per-process resource usage, monitoring disk usage, and chargeback to specific login accounts. If is enabled on your system, LSF writes records for LSF jobs to CSA. SGI CSA writes an accounting record for each process in the pacct file, which is usually located in the /var/adm/acct/day directory. SGI system administrators then use the csabuild command to organize and present the records on a job by job basis. For each job running on the SGI system, LSF writes an accounting record to CSA when the job starts and when the job finishes. LSF daemon accounting in CSA starts and stops with the LSF daemon.
To specify cpuset properties for LSF jobs, use:
Enable the following parameters in /etc/csa.conf:
CSA_STA
WKMG_START
Run the csaswitch command to turn on the configuration changes in /etc/csa.conf.
LSF writes the following records to the pacct file when a job starts and when it exits:
Job record type (job start or job exit)
Current system clock time
Service provider (LSF)
Submission time of the job (at job start only)
User ID of the job owner
LSF job name if it exists
Submission host name
LSF queue name
LSF external job ID
LSF job array index
LSF job exit code (at job exit only)
NCPUS: The number of CPUs the LSF job has been using
Use the SGI csaedit command to see the ASCII content of the pacct file. For example:
# csaedit -P /var/csa/day/pacct -A
For each LSF job, you should see two lines similar to the following:
37 Raw-Workld-Mgmt user1 0x19ac91ee000064f2 0x0000000000000000 0
REQID=1771 ARRAYID=0 PROV=LSF START=Jun 4 15:52:01 ENTER=Jun 4 15:51:49
TYPE=INIT SUBTYPE=START MACH=hostA REQ=myjob QUE=normal
...
39 Raw-Workld-Mgmt user1 0x19ac91ee000064f2 0x0000000000000000 0
REQID=1771 ARRAYID=0 PROV=LSF START=Jun 4 16:09:14 TYPE=TERM SUBTYPE=EXIT
MACH=hostA REQ=myjob QUE=normal--The REQID is the LSF job ID (1771).