Re: Batch Job Priorties

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, we run our interactive jobs at a priority of 10, and we run
our Batch jobs at a priority of 60.

I actually thought that one time, and on a Saturday, with only 3 people
in the company the system was slow, because someone was running
an accounting batch job.  Deciding I wanted to get it out of the way
quickly I changed it to a priority of 1.

What I found is, never change a job to priority of 1 unless you are
running at a priority of 1!  Everyone's interactive job locked up until
the batch job finished 40 minutes later.  No one could even log into
the system

Regards,

Jim Langston

Larry Bolhuis wrote:

> > Just wondering, why are batch jobs running at a priority of 10?
>
>   Don't you do that to get them out of the way of the interactive
> users faster?  It's like when you're almost out of gas in your car,
> you gotta go fast to get to the gas station before you run out!
>
>  - Larry
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