better scheduling in froglock

c-cube / frog-utils

[frozen] Scheduling and running jobs on a shared computer, then analyse their output

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better scheduling in froglock #13

Closed c-cube closed 9 years ago

c-cube commented 9 years ago

use a priority queue (to have different priorities)
be fair w.r.t users?
add a -j <num cores> option and run several jobs at once if they won't overlap (advanced)

Gbury commented 9 years ago

I think that using a priority queue for jobs in froglock, and adding an argument to specify the priority when using the command line tool could be useful, I'll probably do it soon. Additionally, it coud be nice if there was a way for froglock to pause and resume jobs properly (using, for instance signals like sigstp and sigcont), so that a large job can be temporarily interrupted while a job with higher priority is run.

Gbury commented 9 years ago

So can we close this one, or do we want more options for scheduling (such as user fairness, ....) ?