primary/secondary pools not respected?

[LaszloSebo]

We have the following setup:

N idle machines with pools like: 2d, 3d
and
M idle machines with pools like: 2dShared, 2d

We send a job with primary pool = 2dShared, secondary pool = 2d.

I would expect them to first go to the 2dShared machines, and only if those are all full, go to 2d. But maybe i misunderstand how it works? Idle 2d machines won’t be aware of the idle 2dShared boxes, so they just go right ahead and pick the job, right?

[rrussell]

Right. Those jobs will spread to the N machines right away because they’re idle. When a slave looks for a job, it first scans the jobs using their primary pool, and then if it finds nothing, scans again using their secondary pool. If a 3d job would come along later, then those N machines would yield to it once they finish their current task for the 2d job.