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Subject: Re: First unrelated question
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 07:06:23 EDT
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Tom Williams asks about controlling users who submit multiple jobs to a
batch queue.

I wrote a similar solution to Bob Sloane's except
1. It only wakes up every 20 minutes. We thought that a batch job that was
queued and executed within 20 minutes was not causing a problem.
2. Instead of reducing the priority of subsequent jobs for a single user, my
program increases the priority of the first job it finds for each user. This
cannot be circumvented by users, and means that a job with altered priority
need not be checked again. If a user's job is executing, I raise his next job
on the queue from 100 to 101, otherwise I raise the first job for each user
from 100 to 102.

Jeremy Skelton, London School of Economics.

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