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Job Priority

You can prioritize jobs when one or more jobs compete for the same resource. Each job has a priority between 0 and 100 (100 being the highest). The job with the highest value takes priority and obtains the resource first. The default priority is 0. Job priority applies to all active Applications, not just jobs within the same Application.

Note: Priority only applies to renewable and depletable resources.

Example: Job priority assignment

Suppose that independent jobs A, B, and C are waiting for one unit of a renewable resource. If you assign job A a priority of 20, job B a priority of 30, and job C a priority of 40, job C gets the resource first because it has the highest priority, followed by job B, and then job A.

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Set a Job's Priority