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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!gatech!news.mathworks.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!van-bc!nntp.portal.ca!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!nadine From: nadine@seymour.ucs.ualberta.ca (Nadine Leenders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Queuing Question Date: 24 Jun 1996 22:44:14 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4qn5nu$svs@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: solstice.ucs.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I've set up a couple of queues under SunOS Release 4.1. One the of queues processes large jobs that take about 1.5 to 3 hours to complete and the other small jobs that take about 2 minutes to complete. Unfortuneately, it seems that the queueing system is set up to be first-in, first-out even between different queues so the people who just need a small job done are waiting hours. As a consequence, I'd very much like the small job queue to process its jobs either concurrently with the large job queue and/or to have a higher priority than the large job queue. Then people with small jobs wouldn't need to wait forever for results. Is there a way to do this? Thanks muchly for any assistance you can provide with this. -- Nadine Leenders | Computing and Network Services | nadine.leenders@ualberta.ca University of Alberta |