From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!zehntel!sytek!gi!arizona!whm
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Auxiliary Prioritizaion for Berknet?
Article-I.D.: arizona.1228
Posted: Wed Nov  3 21:42:30 1982
Received: Fri Nov  5 03:40:12 1982

Has anybody done any hacking on Berknet to allow a prioritization of
jobs based on something in addition to the length of the job?  We
forward news over Berknet and whenever a big batch of news articles
comes in, the net is clogged up for 30 minutes to an hour.  All we
need is something that would allow us to assign two possible priorities
to a job, news would have the low priority, everything else would
have the high priority.

We run Berknet over a 9600 baud line to an 11/70, and average about
one 1kbyte file every two minutes, is this unusually slow?  (The 70
is usually lightly loaded.)