Tweak the 'load balancing' algorithm
In order to reduce contention we randomly skipped jobs, but this
caused many jobs to end up stopping early. Now instead we keep on
going until we time out (also increased the chance of doing work).
Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier
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"""This module contains the Priority Group Model."""
__authors__ = [
'"Sverre Rabbelier" <sverre@rabbelier.nl>',
]
from google.appengine.ext import db
from django.utils.translation import ugettext
from soc.models import linkable
class PriorityGroup(linkable.Linkable):
"""The PriorityGroup model.
"""
#: the priority of this group, 0 being lower than 1
priority = db.IntegerProperty(required=False, default=0)
#: the human readable name of this priority gropu
name = db.StringProperty(required=False)