way to make jobs retain nodes?

Deadline
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Hi,

Is there a way to have a job retain a minimum amount of nodes. So Job A gets on the far and grabs 10 nodes, Job B appears and starts grabbing nodes from Job A as they’re set to the same priority. I want Job A to be able to keep a couple nodes no matter what.

Thanks!

Jon A

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Push it up in priority?

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Balanced Scheduling might be worth looking into?
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … uling.html

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Balanced is a good plan. It splits the farm fairly over all jobs so everyone gets a bit of work done at once.

A combo of a per-job machine limit of ten plus a priority bump would do it for a single job but not for multiple. As soon as two jobs were bumped to the top they would have the same problem.