Move a job to the bottom of a queue (bbot)

Use bbot to move jobs relative to your last job in the queue.

Before you begin

You must be an LSF administrator or the user who submitted the job.

About this task

By default, LSF dispatches jobs in a queue in the order of arrival (that is, first-come-first-served), subject to availability of suitable server hosts.

Use the bbot command to change the position of pending jobs, or of pending job array elements, to affect the order in which jobs are considered for dispatch. Users can only change the relative position of their own jobs, and LSF administrators can change the position of any users’ jobs.

Procedure

To move a job to the bottom of the queue, run bbot.

For example, bbot 5311.

Results

If invoked by a regular user, bbot moves the selected job after the last job with the same priority submitted by the user to the queue.

If invoked by the LSF administrator, bbot moves the selected job after the last job with the same priority submitted to the queue.