[Mauiusers] setspri and diagnose -p

[Arnau Bria]

Hi all,

I have a couple of question about both commands.

From maui admin guide: setspri can set absolute or relative
priority to a job. 

a.) absolute priority sets a job priority higher than any calculated
value.

b.-) Maui calculated are in the range of 1 to 1 billion.

The example: setspri PRIO JOBID will assign a priority of 1billion+PRIO
to JOBID. That's not true in my system, it's setspri -r:

-----------------------
]# setspri 1 4945238
job system priority adjusted

# checkjob 4945238
checking job 4945238
[...]
PE:  1.00  StartPriority:  -1436  SystemPriority:  1
--------------------------


But:
---------------------------
# setspri -r 1 4945238
job system priority adjusted

[root at pbs02 ~]# checkjob 4945238
[...]
PE:  1.00  StartPriority:  -1436  SystemPriority:  2000000001
---------------------------


Other example:

# checkjob 4962162|grep -i prio
PE:  1.00  StartPriority:  1627

# diagnose -p |grep 4962162
4962162                    1628     0.0(  0.0:  0.0:  0.0) 100.0(  0.0:776.0:851.9)

Both commands shows different prio for same job, why?

Anyway, I'd like to increase the prio until 2000:

# setspri 2000 4962162

ERROR:  system priority must be in the range 0 - 1000

So, with "absolute" prio I can go only till 1000? How may I set a prio
of negative value o "reasonable" value?

# checkjob 4962162|grep -i prio
PE:  1.00  StartPriority:  1718  SystemPriority:  1000

but If I do:
# setspri -r 100 4962162

job system priority adjusted
[root at pbs02 ~]# checkjob 4962162|grep -i prio
PE:  1.00  StartPriority:  1000000100  SystemPriority:  2000000100

While diagnose keeps showing:
# diagnose -p |grep 4962162
4962162                    1623*    0.0(  0.0:  0.0:  0.0) 100.0(  0.0:775.5:847.7)

Ok, wildcard means that the priority is going to change, but the new
value is never shown.


So, if setspri is only used to "force" a job to run, why two kind of
setspri? Why a range of 1-1000?

What am I missunderstanting? the whole concept? :-)

TIA,
Arnau