Configuring 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.