Job count based fair share scheduling

You can potentially use job count based fair share scheduling if you set up a queue to run one job per host. In this situation, a job can use the entire job slots, memory, or other resources that are available in the host. Therefore, only the number of jobs that a user is running is under consideration for the fair share scheduling algorithm instead of job slots because each job can use all the job slots on a host.

The FAIRSHARE_JOB_COUNT parameter in the lsb.params file configures job count based fair share scheduling. If this parameter is set to Y or y, LSF uses the number of jobs in the fair share scheduling algorithm instead of job slots. This setting only affects the value that is multiplied by the job slots weighting factor in the fair share algorithm (RUN_JOB_FACTOR parameter in the lsb.params file).