It might take longer than expected to start a grid-launched workspace server or to sign on to the grid.

To confirm that this is the issue that you are encountering, run the bhist -l job-id command (the command contains the lower-case letter L, not the number 1) and review the bhist output for the job. When you encounter this problem, the output shows a delay between the Dispatched, Starting, and/or Running times:

On a healthy grid, the delay in these times shown in the output above would typically be only one second.

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

For this fix to be fully functional, you must also download and install the IBM Platform LSF fix documented in SAS Note 54800: "A drastic increase in time between job submission and job start occurs when large numbers of jobs are submitted."

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel Grid 9.4_M3 is available at:

A fix for this issue for SAS Threaded Kernel Grid 9.4_M2 is available at: