[mythtv-users] Job host priority

[Brian Foddy]

On Thursday 24 July 2008, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Jul 24, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Brian Foddy wrote:
> > Anyway to give a priority to running commercial scanning on a host,
> > or reduce
> > the likely-hood of it running on another?
> >
> > I know about the run on record setting, but I'd rather just favor
> > the master
> > BE if all other things being equal.  Seems it actually picks the
> > slave / FE
> > machine first.
>
> It picks whichever backend requests the job first. I had a faster
> backend and a slower one, so I had the faster one check for jobs every
> 15 seconds and limit it to 1 job, then the slower one would check
> every 90 seconds and limit to 1 job. I think it pretty much every time
> chose the faster backend. I know this isn't what you asked, but it
> should help you understand a little better how it works and trigger
> you to think of some other solution. :)
>
> -Brad
>

Ok, I can at least give a much higher likely-hood the BE will get the first 
jobs.

Thanks,
Brian