DESCRIPTION
       Univa  Grid  Engine provide means for controlling job dispatch and run-
       time priorities. The dispatch  priority  indicates  the  importance  of
       pending jobs compared with each other and determines the order in which
       Univa Grid Engine dispatches jobs to queue instances. The run-time pri-
       ority  determines  the CPU allocation that the operating system assigns
       to jobs.

   JOBS DISPATCH PRIORITY
       A job's dispatch priority is affected by a number of factors:

       o  the identity of the submitting user

       o  the project under which the job is submitted (or alternatively,  the
          default project of the submitting user)

       o  any resources requested by the job

       o  the job's submit time

       o  the job's initiation deadline time (if specified)

       o  the  -p priority specified for the job (also known as the POSIX pri-
          ority "pprio")

       The effect of each of these is governed by the  overall  policy  setup,
       which  is  split  into three top-level contributions.  Each of these is
       configured  through  the  sched_conf(5)   parameters   weight_priority,
       weight_ticket  and  weight_urgency.   These three parameters control to
       what degree POSIX priority, ticket policy, and urgency  policy  are  in
       effect.    To    facilitate    interpretation,   the   raw   priorities
       ("tckts"/"urg"/"ppri")   are   normalized   ("ntckts"/"nurg"/"npprior")
       before  they are used to calculate job priorities ("prio").  Normaliza-
       tion maps each raw urgency/ticket/priority  value into a range  between
       0 and 1.

          npprior = normalized(ppri)
          nurg    = normalized(urg)
          ntckts  = normalized(tckts)

          prio    = weight_priority * pprio +
                    weight_urgency  * nurg +
                    weight_ticket   * ntckts

       The higher a job's priority value, the earlier it gets dispatched.

       The  urgency  policy defines an urgency value for each job. The urgency
       value

          urg     =  rrcontr + wtcontr + dlcontr

       consists of the  resource  requirement  contribution  ("rrcontr"),  the

          hrr      = rurg * assumed_slot_allocation * request

       where the resource's urgency  value  ("rurg")  is  as  specified  under
       urgency in complex(5), the job's assumed_slot_allocation represents the
       number of slots supposedly  assigned  to  the  job,  and  the  per-slot
       request  is  that  which was specified using the -l qsub(1) option. For
       string type requests the formula is simply

          hrr      = "rurg"

       and directly assigns the resource  urgency  value  as  specified  under
       urgency in complex(5).

       The  waiting  time contribution represents a weighted weighting time of
       the jobs

          wtcontr = waiting_time * weight_waiting_time

       with the waiting time in seconds and the weight_waiting_time  value  as
       specified in sched_conf(5).

       The  deadline  contribution  has  an increasing effect as jobs approach
       their deadline initiation time (see the -dl option in qsub(1)).  It  is
       defined as the quotient of the weight_deadline value from sched_conf(5)
       and the (steadily decreasing) free time in seconds until deadline  ini-
       tiation time

          dlcontr = weight_deadline / free_time

       or  is  set to 0 for non-deadline jobs.  After the deadline passes, the
       value is static and equal to weight_deadline.

       The ticket policy unites functional, override and share  tree  policies
       in the ticket value ("tckts"), as is defined as the sum of the specific
       ticket values  ("ftckt"/"otckt"/"stckt")  for  each  sub-policy  (func-
       tional, override, share):

           tckts = ftckt + otckt + stckt

       The ticket policies provide a broad range of means for influencing both
       job dispatch and runtime  priorities  on  a  per  job,  per  user,  per
       project,  and per department basis. See the Univa Grid Engine Installa-
       tion and Administration Guide for details.

   JOB RUN-TIME PRIORITY
       The run-time priority can be dynamically adjusted in order to meet  the
       goals  set with the ticket policy. Dynamic run-time priority adjustment
       can be turned off (default)  globally  using  reprioritize_interval  in
       sched_conf(5)  If  no dynamic run-time priority adjustment is done at a
       host level, the priority specification in queue_conf(5) is in effect.