Gavin writes:
>
> Jeff writes:
> > What about :ALTJOB #Jxyz;QEXEMPT which would flag the specified job's JMAT
> > entry and bump the limit of it's queue by one.  When the job completes, the
> > JMAT flag causes the limit to be decreased by one before scheduling the next.
>
> Yeah, but this is one of the problems that multiple queues should be *solving*
> not introducing.  There's got to be a way to do it without requiring all
> these special cases like $HIPRI, $BACKGROUND, etc.
 
Yep, plus...the next operator comes along and says, oh...let's restore the
queue limit of that queue to 1, where it belongs.  Then the 17 jobs in the
queue that were forced in and also marked QEXEMPT finish...do we have
a queue limit of -17 now?  :)
 
 
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