How to kill array jobs using lsb_forcekilljob?

[rajathpatil]

How do i pass an array jobs to the function lsb_forcekilljob to be killed?

Passing an array job, lsf.lsb_forcekilljob(337400[4]) throws the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/cmetrics/lsf_test.py", line 64, in
lsf.lsb_forcekilljob(337400[4])
TypeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'getitem'

Also how do i pass a group of jobs to be killed at once?

[adamsla]

Have you ever downloaded the LSF command line source code from FixCentral? It's available. Since the API is based upon SWIG, you can translate almost directly.

[adamsla]

You should be able to order and download the sample code from here. Look forward to your pull request. https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/doSelectFixes?options.selectedFixes=lsf-10.1-build427553&continue=1

[rajathpatil]

adamsla,
Yes I have used LSF command line. The array jobs can be killed by enclosing it in quotes. However lsb_forcekilljob only takes parameters in LONG_INT so cannot pass it array jobs within quotes, it errors out.

[adamsla]

Sure, I think the bulk kill is using a unsigned long long that includes both the jobid and the indexid as a single integer. So, there is a macro you can find in the lsbatch.h I think that is something to the affect of the following, which I just clipped out of the code (removing stuff that looks proprietary):

#define LSB_JOBID(array_jobId, array_idx) { blah }
#define LSB_JOBID2(array_jobId, array_idx) { blah blah }
#define LSB_ARRAY_IDX(jobId) { blah blah blah }

It would be nice to see a pull request from someone who can detect the bracketed notation and convert it into something that the API recognizes.