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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!ns.saard.net!news.camtech.com.au!news.adelaide.on.net!news.ade.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.dacom.co.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!nadine From: nadine@seymour.ucs.ualberta.ca (Nadine Leenders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Queuing Question Date: 27 Jun 1996 16:47:17 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4qudul$14qg@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <4qn5nu$svs@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <4qq8p1$9c@anorak.coverform.lan> NNTP-Posting-Host: solstice.ucs.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Brian Somers (brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk) wrote: : 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. Isn't SunOS Release 4.1 a specific OS? I haven't a clue what might be wrong with my code. It seems to work fine. -- Nadine Leenders | Computing and Network Services | nadine.leenders@ualberta.ca University of Alberta |