That's it - works as expected.

Thank you very much!

Balint

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 10:09 AM, William Hay <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 7 October 2011 09:45, Balint Takacs <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can I somehow change the *relative* priority of my own jobs?
> > I am working in a company environment where lots of people are competing
> for
> > grid resources, and jobs usually has to queue. Some of my jobs are more
> > important than others, but they sometimes submitted later. In this case I
> > have to wait for the start of the high priority job until all the
> previous
> > lower priority jobs started.
> > I have tried to lower the priority of all my other waiting jobs by
> 'qalter
> > -p -1', but it had no effect.
> > Additionally, if I got the documentation correctly, priority is
> understood
> > over all jobs, not just mine. So this may put me in a disadvantage in the
> > queue execution order relative to others.
> > We are using an ancient 6.0u8 version of SGE. I have no administrator
> rights
> > at all.
> > Any suggestions welcome!
> Not sure if it is present in version 6.0 but in 6.2 there is a -js
> option that should allow you to attract any functional or fair share
> tickets to the high priority job.  The default is 0 so submitting with
> any positive value should ensure that a job attracts any such tickets
> available to you.  This will depend a bit on your local policy so if
> ,as it appears, you aren't the local administrator check with them.
>
> William
>
> > Balint
> >
>
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