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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Queuing Question Date: 26 Jun 1996 16:34:15 -0500 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4qsacn$l7@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <4qn5nu$svs@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <31D09F31.6DB0F89A@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : Nadine Leenders 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. : How can you tell a job will be a small job? Or rather, how : can the queue ordering software tell to provide the ordering : you want? I think you're missing the point - it's much highter level. Nadine is saying that ipcs -q shows two queues owned by two different processes (say A & B). I post to queue A with process X, and before the reply comes back, post to queue B with process Y. The suggestion is that if the turnaround of process B is 2 seconds and the turnaround of process A is two hours, the B reply has to wait until the A reply has been sent. This is clearly not the way independent queues work. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....