Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of BackendPrograms

Timestamp:

Mar 22, 2010, 12:58:42 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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BackendPrograms

@@ -27 +27 @@
         Sleep N seconds if nothing to do
  -allapps::
-        Interleave work items from all applications. Weight applications according to the value of their 'weight' field; if all weights are zero, results are interleaved uniformly. Without this option, runnable results are enumerated in an indeterminate order, and there may be periods when only results from one application are available for sending.
+   Interleave work items from all applications.
+   Weight applications according to the value of their 'weight' field;
+   if all weights are zero, results are interleaved uniformly.
+   Without this option, runnable results are enumerated in an indeterminate order,
+   and there may be periods when only results from one application are available for sending.
  -purge_stale X::
         remove work items from the shared memory segment that have been there for longer than x minutes but haven't been assigned
  -appids N1, N2, ... ::
-        Get work only for the given apps.  Useful if your project uses both locality and job-cache scheduling.
+   Get work only for the given apps.
+   Useful if your project uses both locality and job-cache scheduling.
+   Can't be used in combination with -allapps,
+   but you can get the same effect by using -allapps and assigning nonzero weights
+   only to the apps you want.
 
 If a user's project preferences include elements of the form `<app_id>N</app_id>` then the scheduler will send the user work only from those applications.