How can a user set a priority when submitting jobs through the API #6841
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Hi All, We have a user who wants to prioritize some of his jobs over others. I can see a UserPriority popping up in the JobAttributes, but I haven't been able to set it in the API even using some rather creative python. How is this meant to work ? Cheers, |
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I think it's possible with But TBH it would be better to add a method to Another possibility is to create a new users' group, name it e.g. "high_priority_users", that has the same description of your standard users' group with the exception of the "JobShare" parameter, to which you would give a pretty higher number (yes, I know "what does that mean?" but there's no doc whatsoever, this is really ancient code). |
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I think the use case here is more per job type than per user (it's not particle physics, but something like reco > mc > analysis (and just before Moriond the reverse ;-)) |
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I think it's possible with
But TBH it would be better to add a method to
API.Job. Feel free to add it.Another possibility is to create a new users' group, name it e.g. "high_priority_users", that has the same description of your standard users' group with the exception of the "JobShare" parameter, to which you would give a pretty higher number (yes, I know "what does that mean?" but there's no doc whatsoever, this is really ancient code).
If you go for this solution, your user would need to do
dirac-proxy-init -g high_priority_u…