Limit number of job starts per neg. cycle

0212.node_worker_bwforcluster_nemo2.cfg

@@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ MEMORY = 110000
 TardisDroneUuid = "$ENV(TardisDroneUuid)"
 STARTD_NAME = $ENV(TardisDroneUuid)
 
+# The maximum number of claims during one negotiation cycle.
+# This is a tradeoff between allowing the cluster to fill fast (high value),
+# versus timeouts when so many jobs starts that each start takes too long.
+NUM_CLAIMS = 8
 
 
 # Inverse wall-time job ranking