Jobs in this state does not gain any queue-time priority. This prohibit users from acquiring longer queue-time than deserved by submitting large number of jobs. Job Priority Maui present numerous factors in the expression used to calculate the job priority to achieve a site's goals of fairness and utilization. Each factor is weighted according to its importance and the sum is used as the total priority of the job. Depending on what type of jobs is favored, jobs can be pushed the front of the queue.
Experience shows that favoring large jobs often improves system utilization.
Fairly low rating. A high utilization is desired but the fairness between users should not be affected. This factor is based on the time the job has been eligible to run. This factor often has a very low weight in the priority calculation. This relates the job time limit the user request to the total queueing and expected run time.