As your site grows, you must tune your LSF cluster to support a large number of hosts and an increased workload.
This chapter discusses how to efficiently tune querying, scheduling, and event logging in a large cluster that scales to 5000 hosts and 100,000 jobs at any one time.
Switching and replaying the events log file, lsb.events, is much faster. The length of the events file no longer impacts performance
Job submission time is constant. It does not matter how many jobs are in the system. The submission time does not vary.
The scalability of load updates from the slaves to the master has increased
The following graph shows the improvement in LIM startup after the LSF performance enhancements: