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Re: [Condor-users] Why is JobPrio limited to [-20:20]?



On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:30:04PM -0500, Ian Chesal wrote:
> Is there a technical reason for this limitation on user-assigned job
> priorities? If not, I'd like to request that the range be expanded to
> something like [-100:100]? The broader the range, the better. So
> [-int:int] would be really great.

-20:19 is a very typical job priority on linux/unix systems, so perhaps
Condor uses -20:20 to be similar: a sysadmin familiar with nice-ing a
job will be comfortable with Condor's JobPrio parameters.

--keith

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Keith Keller
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UC Berkeley Department of Bioengineering