CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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duhaime

Reputation: 27594

Prioritizing Jobs on Sun Grid Engine Queue

I have a bunch of jobs lined up for processing on a Sun Grid Engine queue, but I have just submitted a new job that I would like to prioritize. (The new job is 163981 in the left-most column.) Is there a command I can run to ask the server to process the 163981 job next, rather than the next job in the 140522 job array? I would be grateful for any advice others can offer on this question.

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 4066

Answers (2)

LinesR
LinesR

Reputation: 41

With admin/manager access you could use:

qalter -p <positive number up to 1024>

[job id of the job you want to run sooner]

Without admin/manager access you could use:

qalter -p <negative numeber down to -1023>

[job id of the other job you don't want to run next]

These may not work depending on how long a lag time between when the older job was submitted and the current time and how much weight the administrator has put on the waiting time.

Another option without admin/manager access would be to put the job you don't want to run on hold.

qalter -h u <job id of the job you don't want to run now>

This will make the job you want to run be the only one eligible. Once it has started running you can remove the hold on the other job with 

qalter -h U <job id>

Upvotes: 4

Vince
Vince

Reputation: 3395

Does changing the job share (-js option of qsub) accomplish what you want?

Assuming other jobs are running and in queue with -js value of 0 (default), submit new job with higher priority like so:

qsub -js 10 high_priority.sh

Source: http://www.lifesci.dundee.ac.uk/services/lsc/services/cluster/using-cluster

Upvotes: 1

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