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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Graeme Stewart said:
> Then the GRIS falls back to a default value for
> running/queued jobs of 4444 - just a plain old lie, really!
> (-1 would have been a rather more sensible choice, I suspect,
> but the important thing was to signal something sufficiently
> off-putting to the RB to ward off any more jobs.)
-1 wouldn't be a good choice because it would need special treatment
whenever used, otherwise any normal arithmetic expression would see it
as even more attractive than 0 (and negative values might create
unexpected results in more complex expressions). I believe the value is
going to be increased to something like 4444444 or 666666 as 4444 is a
possible genuine value in large systems. The value is of course also
supposed to be distinctive so you can easily recognise it as an error.
Stephen
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