Re: [Condor-users] ordering jobs

[Nathan Panike <nwp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:58:23PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 09:40 PM, Nathan Panike wrote:
> > 
> > The 7.8.0 version of DAGman will set the job priority according to the
> > PRIORITY value given in the DAG file.  You can try that if you are using
> > 7.8.0
> > 
> > More directly, setting "priority = 0" for the "A" jobs and "priority =
> > 1" for the "B" jobs will get you what you want, I think. (See
> > http://research.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.8/condor_submit.html)
> 
> No, or at least it was not running any B (child) jobs after a couple of
> hundred As (parents) have completed. (7.8.0 linux x86_64 pool with only
> 40 slots.)
> 
> > Also, you could set "DAGMAN_SUBMIT_DEPTH_FIRST = True" in the DAG config
> > file, but from your description above, it seems like this shouldn't
> > matter.
> 
> That did the trick.

OK, excellent!

> 
> Another quick one: how do I get the total number of slots for
> DAGMAN_MAX_JOBS_SUBMITTED? Is there an attribute or macro (that I'm not
> seeing the fine manual)?

So you want to use the number of slots as DAGMAN_MAX_JOBS_SUBMITTED?
I think 

condor_submit_dag -maxjobs $(condor_status -f '%s\n' Machine | wc -l)

will do what you want.  I do not know of any attribute or macro that
counts the slots in the pool.

Nathan Panike

> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Dimitri Maziuk
> Programmer/sysadmin
> BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu