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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
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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.

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Nadine Leenders                  |
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