Re: [Condor-users] creating a special queue for administrators

[Hans Wenzel <wenzel@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi alan


I will have a look (our cluster is down right now)  But even if the user 
has a very high priority one would have to wait until
the current jobs are finished. What I was thinking of was a way to let 
you run the test right away
e.g. having and extra vm on the machines that would just be available 
for the high proiority users and would only be used for non intrusive 
test jobs.

cheers hans




Alan De Smet wrote:

> Hans Wenzel <wenzel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  
>
> > I need some advice. What I want to implement is something like
> > a special queue for administrators. It would give us immediate
> > access to all the nodes to test things. 
> >    
>
> Have you looked at using startd RANK setting and expression to
> give these users a higher priority?  You could give a bonus to
> particular job Owners, perhaps further limiting it to those jobs
> for which some special flag is set.  For example, to give the
> users adesmet and sample a higher priority if they add
> "+HighPriority=TRUE" to their submit files:
>
> # This gives adesmet and sample a boost of 100 in rank.
> IsHighPriorityUser = (Owner == "adesmet" || Owner == "sample")
> RANK = (($(IsHighPriorityUser) && Target.HighPriority) * 100)
>
> This is a pretty simple solution; more complex ones are also
> possible.
>
>  

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