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Order String
Order String
Syntax
Default
Example
The order string allows the selected hosts to be sorted according to the values
of resources. The values of r15s, r1m, and r15m used for sorting are the
normalized load indices returned by lsload -N.
The order string is used for host sorting and selection. The ordering begins
with the rightmost index in the order string and proceeds from right to left. The
hosts are sorted into order based on each load index, and if more hosts are
available than were requested, the LIM drops the least desirable hosts
according to that index. The remaining hosts are then sorted by the next index.
After the hosts are sorted by the leftmost index in the order string, the final
phase of sorting orders the hosts according to their status, with hosts that are
currently not available for load sharing (that is, not in the ok state) listed at the
end.
Because the hosts are sorted again for each load index, only the host status
and the leftmost index in the order string actually affect the order in which
hosts are listed. The other indices are only used to drop undesirable hosts from
the list.
When sorting is done on each index, the direction in which the hosts are sorted
(increasing vs. decreasing values) is determined by the default order returned
by lsinfo for that index. This direction is chosen such that after sorting, by
default, the hosts are ordered from best to worst on that index.
[-]resource_name [:[-]resource_name]...
You can specify any built-in or external load index.
When an index name is preceded by a minus sign ‘-’, the sorting order is
reversed so that hosts are ordered from worst to best on that index.
The default sorting order is r15s:pg (except for lslogin(1): ls:r1m).
swp:r1m:tmp:r15s
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