The Wonders of Spool

• Spool is a work area for the batch system

  • Info about your submitted jobs is kept there
  • If you spool your input script, it is kept there too (copied at the time of submission, only then LSF directives embedded in a script are taken into account)
  • Your standard output and standard error go there even if you send them to a local file - that’s where bpeek looks for info.

• Spool can be overwhelmed if abused the same way as any other disk vault (it is a disk vault) and if there is no spool, the whole system stops.

• E-mail from your jobs

  • If standard output and error are sent to a file, there is no e-mail.
  • On PDSF files larger than 100MB are dropped.
  • You can ask to be e-mailed when your job finishes.

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