Re: [Condor-users] Priority = $(DAGManJobId)

[Horvátth Szabolcs <szabolcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry for repeating this but it looks like a direct quotation from the 
docs (or the config files) and sounds plain wrong.
And I still could not find a reliable way to force dag-dependent job 
execution (so that the second submitted dag
executes after the first one for sure).

Cheers,
Szabolcs


> While looking for information on prioritizing dags I found this post 
> (again) :
> > ou can now use DAGManJobId as the value of your job's queue priority, 
> > like so:
> >  Priority = $(DAGManJobId)
> >
> >   
> > This will ensure that jobs submitted by earlier DAGMans will have 
> > local, per-user queue priority over jobs submitted by later DAGMans.
> >     
>
> I don't really get it. I thought job priority works the other way, 
> higher priority is preferred.
> And in case I'm right than how can I use the priority expression at all? 
> Should I subtract the
> DAGManJobId from a really huge number and hope that job ids will never 
> reach it?
> (I tried using negative values to get around this problem but they seem 
> to be clipped at -1.)
>
> Or is a job rank expression the way to go?
>
> Cheers,
> Szabolcs
>