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Submit job failed due to nproc limit of submission user

Troubleshooting


Problem

Submit job failed with esub script: > bsub -a test sleep 1000 System call failed: Resource temporarily unavailable. Job not submitted. Request aborted by esub. Job not submitted. /lsf/9.1/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/etc/esub.test: fork retry: Resource temporarily unavailable

Symptom

When submitting a job, bsub calls esub script first. System created child processes for esub script and commands in esub script, but forks new process failed.

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Document Information

Modified date:
23 June 2018

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