Re: [HTCondor-users] jobs to start on busy machines first

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/7/2018 2:26 PM, Rolf Seuster wrote:
> Hi Todd,
>
> > So I had a typo in the recipe which may make a difference depending on
> > how you are submitting the jobs. The clause "(10000 * Cpus)" was
> > supposed to be "(-10000 * Cpus)"... I changed the wiki recipe.
>
> Thanks, looks like that is now filling one machine at a time !

Yay!  Glad I could help.

> > Do your execute nodes have config knob CONSUMPTION_POLICY=True (this
> > is not the default) ?
>
> No, it seems our config doesn't touch this variable. Reading up on it now.

My advice is to keep it that way... i.e. unless you need to do so, do 
not specify CONSUMPTION_POLICY, just use the default....

regards,
Todd