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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Queuing Question
Date: 25 Jun 1996 21:54:25 -0500
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Nadine Leenders (nadine@seymour.ucs.ualberta.ca) wrote:


: 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.

I'd be _very_ surprised if this was really the case.  Have you proved
the software on another OS ?  If so, which specific OS are you having
the problem with ?  If not, I would assume that there is a problem
with your code.

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....