Re: [condor-users] Questions about resource allocation and userpriorites...

[Mark Silberstein <marks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You should take a look at the PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS expression. This
one controls the behavior of negotiator when it considers to preempt or
not to preempt the current running job. By default that expression
evaluates to true ( that is, allows the job to be preempted ) only if
the current job runs more than one hour and the remote user has 1.2
times higher priority over the current user. 
Changing that expression does what you want. But there is a reason
behind such default policy - if you just set that expression to
RemoteUserPrio > SubmittorPrio, it might end up with job thrashing.

By the way, PREEMPT expression has nothing to do with the preemption due
to priority. It is evaluated by startd ( as opposed to negotiator ) to
know if the job is still allowed to run on the resource according to the
rules of that resource, and not versus another job.

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 22:14, Michael S. Root wrote:
> Hi.  I've been running Condor 6.6.0 for a couple of months now, and I'm 
> curious about how to more effectively control resource allocation among 
> users.
> 
> If a user submits a dagman job, it will be correctly distributed across our 
> machines (cuurenly 11 of them).  However, if a second user then also 
> submits a dagman job, that user will not get ANY resources until all of 
> the first users jobs have been completed.  Both of the users have the same 
> priority factor (1.0).  The second user has an Effective Priority of 0.5, 
> while the first user's Effecive Priority is 11.0 (or 1.0 times the number 
> of machines).  Why don't any of the machines get allocated to the other 
> user over time as some of the jobs in the first user's dag finish?
> 
> As an experiment, I've set the PRIORITY_HALFLIFE to just 5 seconds, so a 
> user's Real Priority reflects only the resources they are currently using 
> (more or less).  This doesn't seem to have affected the behavior in the 
> slightest.
> 
> I also tried fiddling with some of the PREEMPTION values.  However, this 
> isn't really what we want.  All of our jobs are in the Vanilla universe, 
> so we definitely do NOT want to just kill jobs that have run for a while.  
> We don't really want the instant resources that PREEMPTION provides, just 
> to have the resources equalize across users over time as jobs finish.
> 
> Any idea what I'm missing here?  Thanks for any insight you can provide.
> 
> -Mike
> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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