[Mauiusers] QOS

[Åke Sandgren]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 21:38 +0100, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to do several hundred low priority jobs (calculation of a grid). While 
> those jobs are in the queue, I want start a few other jobs, but with a higher 
> priority. Presently we don't have any "intra-user-queue" priorities and jobs 
> will be calculated one after the other just as submitted by the user. 
> Reading the maui documentation I see there is QOS, but reading further I have 
> the impression that QOS also affects the job priorities related to other user 
> jobs and not only the job priorities within my own queue. 
> 
> So I ask for some help pointing me into the right direction.

You could set up a QOS that only users allowed to use that queue can
utilize.

QOSCFG[high] PRIORITY=9000
QOSCFG[DEFAULT] priority=0 (or some other QOS parameter)

USERCFG[userx] QLIST=high:DEFAULT QDEF=DEFAULT

Don't forget to set QOSWEIGHT to something or the priority from QOS
won't matter.

Now only userx can use the "high" QOS.

CLASSCFG[somequeue] QLIST=high:DEFAULT QDEF=DEFAULT
should enable the "high" QOS for anyone allowed to use the "somequeue"
queue.

There are lots of other ways one can use this too.

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