Re: [Condor-users] When do machine RANK settings apply?

[Dan Bradley <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > I'm now experiments with your suggestion of:
> > >
> > > PREEMPTION_REQUIREMENTS = False
> > > PRIORITY_HALFLIFE = 1
> > > RANK = (TARGET.JobPrio * 2880)
> > >
> > > With our very long retirement time (enough for our jobs to finish
> > > normally) this should be okay. I'll let you know how it works out.
> > >      
> Hmm. Actually, it isn't working out at all. I had users with jobs in the
> system with JobPrio's of 10 and 11 respecitivily. I sent a single job in
> with a JobPrio of 16 and expected my job to run on the next available
> machine. Not the case. My job is still sitting there while the two
> lower-JobPrio user's are passing jobs through the system.

From the netogiator log snippets you posted, it appears to me that your 
job _was_ preempting other resource claims.  What is not clear is why 
that same job kept coming back in subsequent negotiation cycles.  Do you 
see anything that would explain that in the job's user log or in the 
ShadowLog?

--Dan