We want those other jobs to finish so that we can include the time
they took, and the fact that they completed, in our calculations.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
---
 ts-hosts-allocate-Executive | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ts-hosts-allocate-Executive b/ts-hosts-allocate-Executive
index 6b3da600..079ef1d1 100755
--- a/ts-hosts-allocate-Executive
+++ b/ts-hosts-allocate-Executive
@@ -788,9 +788,17 @@ sub starving ($$) {
     my $maxfin=0;
     while (my ($j,$st,$fin) = $starvation_q->fetchrow_array()) {
        if ($st eq 'preparing' ||
-           $st eq 'queued' ||
-           $st eq 'running') {
+           $st eq 'queued') {
            $w++;
+       } elsif ($st eq 'running') {
+           # We don't quit if there are still jobs running.  Instead
+           # we wait until they are done and then see if how much we
+           # would be delaying their results.  This does mean that a
+           # flight can be kept going, rather than being treated as
+           # starved, by a constant trickle of late jobs.  But that
+           # is indistinguishable from a flight which is at the head
+           # of the queue for a small set of resources.
+           return (0, "job $j status $st, don't give up just yet");
        } else {
            $d++;
            return (0, "job $j status $st but no step finished time!")
-- 
2.11.0


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