Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Fritz Ferstl
Some more hints on where to look for regarding the functional policy: * You probably will want to set auto_user_fshare in the cluster config. * You probably will want to set share_functional_shares in the scheduler config * Then use the weighting in the scheduler config to determined the

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Fritz Ferstl
Oh ... and you can also mix the functional with the fairshare policy ... Fritz Fritz Ferstl schrieb: I'm always interested ;-) - hence I'm still involved after more than 20 years ... As I wrote, I'd look into the functional policy. Or if you are using fairshare, as Chris writes, then you mig

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Fritz Ferstl
I'm always interested ;-) - hence I'm still involved after more than 20 years ... As I wrote, I'd look into the functional policy. Or if you are using fairshare, as Chris writes, then you might be able to mix this through the weighting with the -p prio to get something similar to what you wan

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Chris Dagdigian
Yep I think we are going to try this and monitor it. Gut feeling is that the fairshare by user policy has so much more impact/weight on the global job waitlist that if we just have a single user doing stuff with "-p -10" and "-p -1" to distinguish between her own jobs it might actually do cl

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Reuti
> Am 30.04.2015 um 18:21 schrieb Chris Dagdigian : > > > GE and UGE man pages are not clear about the scope of "-p" priority values > when a user uses it. It's been a long time since I needed this and I wanted > to confirm the scope of the behavior .. > > Use case: > > - I need to submit 100

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Mark Dixon
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Fritz Ferstl wrote: Nah, the weight_priority won't help. It just determines how much influence the -p has vs things like job wait time or urgency. If you have none of those then all being equal it would have the same effect as if you left it untouched. And if you have infl

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Fritz Ferstl
Nah, the weight_priority won't help. It just determines how much influence the -p has vs things like job wait time or urgency. If you have none of those then all being equal it would have the same effect as if you left it untouched. And if you have influence from waiting time or urgency or othe

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Fritz Ferstl
Hi Chris, if memory serves correctly then the so called POSIX priority is one range applied to all jobs. So you would be penalizing your jobs. If you need this more often then you could either ensure that jobs always are submitted with a negative priority (say -100) and then regular users ha

Re: [gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Mark Dixon
On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Chris Dagdigian wrote: ... - Does my use of "-p" to send lower-than-zero values for my submitted jobs affect just MY jobs and the order in which they get dispatched or will I end up penalizing myself globally because all the other jobs from other users on the cluster are ru

[gridengine users] sanity check on usage of "-p" priority value: per-user effect or global across waitlist?

2015-04-30 Thread Chris Dagdigian
GE and UGE man pages are not clear about the scope of "-p" priority values when a user uses it. It's been a long time since I needed this and I wanted to confirm the scope of the behavior .. Use case: - I need to submit 100 personal jobs as "dag" with 10 jobs being slightly more important