KBI 311911 How To Increase The Number Of Jobs Running Simultaneously In Argent Job Scheduler

Version

Argent Job Scheduler – All Versions

Date

Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Summary

In Argent Job Scheduler, jobs get randomly stalled in ‘Pending’ state due exceeding the number of maximum running jobs

Technical Background

By default Argent Scheduler has a maximum running job threshold of 100

By default Argent Queue Engine has a maximum running job threshold of 100

By default each individual queue in Argent Queue Engine has a maximum running job threshold of 10

Log message in AJSMAIN_SQL_LOG

ARGENT (01520-06656) 02215 Process RunNow jobs only. Reason: Current running job count exceeds the threshold (100)

Resolution

1. Increase Argent Scheduler configuration settings of “Running Job Threshold”, “Per-Loop Processing Threshold” and “Job Processing Thread Limit”

Settings are found under Settings > Configuration Options > Times

2. Increase Argent Queue Engine server settings “Maximum Executing Jobs” and “Maximum Job Processes”

Settings are found under Administration > General

3. Increase Argent Queue Engine queue settings “Maximum Executing and Pending Jobs” and “Maximum Executing Jobs”

Settings are found under “Queues And Jobs” > QueueName > Properties