Configure job priority escalation

Procedure

  1. To configure job priority escalation edit lsb.params and define JOB_PRIORITY_OVER_TIME.
    JOB_PRIORITY_OVER_TIME=increment/interval

    Where:

    increment

    Specifies the value used to increase job priority every interval minutes. Valid values are positive integers.

    interval

    Specifies the frequency, in minutes, to increment job priority. Valid values are positive integers.

    Note:

    User-assigned job priority must also be configured,

  2. Use bparams -l to display the values of JOB_PRIORITY_OVER_TIME.

Example

JOB_PRIORITY_OVER_TIME=3/20

Specifies that every 20 minute interval increment to job priority of pending jobs by 3.