Delaying planning for jobs

In high throughput environments, it may be desirable for most jobs to use the standard LSF scheduling, without a plan. The planning based reservation can be used only to help in cases of job starvation (that is, if it is pending for longer than expected).

To support this case, the PLAN = DELAY parameter setting is provided at the application, queue, or cluster level:

PLAN = DELAY[<minutes>]

This causes LSF to wait for the specified number of minutes following the submission of a job, to consider making a planned allocation for that job.

In the case that eligible scheduling time is enabled, LSF waits until the job’s eligible pending time has reached the delay time before it considers making a planned allocation for the job.

When delay is specified at multiple levels, the application-level setting overrides the queue-level setting, which overrides the cluster-level setting.