[Condor-users] Priority = $(DAGManJobId)

[Horvátth Szabolcs <szabolcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

While looking for information on prioritizing dags I found this post 
(again) :

> You can now use DAGManJobId as the value of your job's queue priority, 
> like so:
>  Priority = $(DAGManJobId)
>
>   
> This will ensure that jobs submitted by earlier DAGMans will have 
> local, per-user queue priority over jobs submitted by later DAGMans.

I don't really get it. I thought job priority works the other way, 
higher priority is preferred.
And in case I'm right than how can I use the priority expression at all? 
Should I subtract the
DAGManJobId from a really huge number and hope that job ids will never 
reach it?
(I tried using negative values to get around this problem but they seem 
to be clipped at -1.)

Or is a job rank expression the way to go?

Cheers,
Szabolcs