For example: {{{#!bash [fuji@cypress1 ~]$ squeue -u fuji JOBID QOS NAME USER ST TIME NO NODELIST(REASON) 1715517 normal idv44908 fuji PD 0:00 18 (QOSResourceLimit) 1715518 normal idv44922 fuji PD 0:00 18 (QOSResourceLimit) 1715516 normal idv34257 fuji R 0:04 18 cypress01-[007-012,015-019,024,031-032,034-035,070-071] }}} To check the priority, {{{#!bash [fuji@cypress1 ~]$ scontrol show job=1715517 JobId=1715517 Name=idv44908 UserId=fuji(93238) GroupId=hpcstaff(5002) Priority=147 Nice=0 Account=hpcstaff QOS=normal JobState=PENDING Reason=QOSResourceLimit Dependency=(null) Requeue=0 Restarts=0 BatchFlag=1 ExitCode=0:0 RunTime=00:00:00 TimeLimit=01:00:00 TimeMin=N/A SubmitTime=2021-09-21T13:41:16 EligibleTime=2021-09-21T13:41:16 StartTime=Unknown EndTime=Unknown PreemptTime=None SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 Partition=defq AllocNode:Sid=cypress1:43063 ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=(null) NodeList=(null) NumNodes=18-18 NumCPUs=360 CPUs/Task=20 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:*:* Socks/Node=* NtasksPerN:B:S:C=1:0:*:* CoreSpec=0 MinCPUsNode=20 MinMemoryCPU=3200M MinTmpDiskNode=0 Features=(null) Gres=mic:2 Reservation=(null) Shared=1 Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null) Command=/tmp/myjob_fuji.44908 WorkDir=/home/fuji StdErr=/home/fuji/slurm-idv44908.o1715517 StdIn=/dev/null StdOut=/home/fuji/slurm-idv44908.o1715517 [fuji@cypress1 ~]$ scontrol show job=1715518 JobId=1715518 Name=idv44922 UserId=fuji(93238) GroupId=hpcstaff(5002) Priority=147 Nice=0 Account=hpcstaff QOS=normal JobState=PENDING Reason=QOSResourceLimit Dependency=(null) Requeue=0 Restarts=0 BatchFlag=1 ExitCode=0:0 RunTime=00:00:00 TimeLimit=01:00:00 TimeMin=N/A SubmitTime=2021-09-21T13:41:20 EligibleTime=2021-09-21T13:41:20 StartTime=Unknown EndTime=Unknown PreemptTime=None SuspendTime=None SecsPreSuspend=0 Partition=defq AllocNode:Sid=cypress1:43236 ReqNodeList=(null) ExcNodeList=(null) NodeList=(null) NumNodes=18-18 NumCPUs=360 CPUs/Task=20 ReqB:S:C:T=0:0:*:* Socks/Node=* NtasksPerN:B:S:C=1:0:*:* CoreSpec=0 MinCPUsNode=20 MinMemoryCPU=3200M MinTmpDiskNode=0 Features=(null) Gres=mic:2 Reservation=(null) Shared=1 Contiguous=0 Licenses=(null) Network=(null) Command=/tmp/myjob_fuji.44922 WorkDir=/home/fuji StdErr=/home/fuji/slurm-idv44922.o1715518 StdIn=/dev/null StdOut=/home/fuji/slurm-idv44922.o1715518 }}} To make job 1715518 higher priority, {{{#!bash [fuji@cypress1 ~]$ scontrol update job=1715518 Priority=148 }}} Job 1715518 will become active before Job 1715517.