Re: [Condor-users] Jobs priority

[Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:12:01PM +0200, Daniel Tard?n wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> i have a newbie question.
> 
> I submit jobs allways as the same user and i would like to mix jobs in the
> queue. I mean that if i have the 12 and 13 clusters with 10 jobs each one,
> the 13 cluster executes its jobs at the same time that the 12 cluster does
> and not  wait untill the 12 cluster finishes.

It's Condor's goal to achieve high throughput. Why should it keep the new 
jobs in Idle state when there are available resources left?

> I know that exists user prios and i've read about the job prios but i
> don't know how to do that whith the job prios because all the jobs have
> the same priority.

What you need is a meta-scheduler that knows about job dependencies.
Look for DagMan.

Steffen

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