Problem Note 62074: Jobs are not load-balanced on available nodes, and you receive a ". . . load balancing object spawner timed out" error
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Load balancing does not occur, and jobs are not sent to all the available nodes. You see the following error in the object spawner log:
Workaround
For integration technologies, check whether the object spawners can communicate with each other successfully. In this type of distribution, typically a start-up cost is specified. That cost must be met before other servers in the cluster are used. Set the start-up cost to a value of 0 if you would like to see a round-robin distribution on the nodes. The Startup cost field is located on the Advanced Options > Performance tab for your workspace server property settings. To activate this change, you must take one of these actions:
- Restart the object spawners.
- If you do not restart them, open SAS® Management Console and select Refresh Spawner in the pop-up menu for each object spawner machine definition in the Server Manager.
In a SAS® Grid environment, check the UJOB_LIMIT parameter in your lsb.resources file. The Load Sharing Facility (LSF) lsb.queues UJOB_LIMIT parameter sets the per-user job-slot limit for the queue. Make sure that each user has the maximum number of job slots for a queue.
This issue is fixed in SAS® 9.4M5.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | Product Release | SAS Release | ||
| Reported | Fixed* | Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Platform LSF | Solaris for x64 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 |
| Linux for x64 | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 10.1 | 10.1 | 9.4 TS1M5 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||