Re: [HTCondor-devel] Priorities between accounting groups

[Jon Thomas <jthomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 09:06 -0800, Igor Sfiligoi wrote:
> Dear HTCondor team.
> 
> I am puzzled on how priorities between accounting groups work.
> Some time ago I have asked around (don't remember who I talked to, sorry), I was told that if I set the dynamic quotas to >>1.0, then I effectively get priorities between them this way.
> (e.g. G1=2.0&G2=4.0, users in G2 get 2/3 of the pool on a busy day, bust still can get all the resources if G1 is not there)
> 
> Looking in the 7.8 manual, I see instead that "each of the subgroups will have their dynamic group quota scaled"!
> http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/v7.8/3_4User_Priorities.html#26789
> 
> Is this a recent change?
> Dan tells me there has been a lot of work in this area.
> 
> Please let me know.
> If the semantics has indeed changed, how can I get the desired semantics back?

Looks like what you are after is G1=.33, G2=.67 and
GROUP_ACCEPT_SURPLUS=true.

> 
> Thanks,
>    Igor
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