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From: jim_d@cimcor.MN.ORG (Jim Dahlberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How to implement Unix queue?
Keywords: unix queue question
Message-ID: <35@cimcor.MN.ORG>
Date: 20 Feb 90 00:59:48 GMT
Organization: Grenier Family & Friends, Forest Lake, MN
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At work, we are experiencing a performance problem on our Sun 4 while
running a logic synthesis program.  We have three teams developing three
ASIC chips.  Often-times each team will submit 1-3 batch synthesis jobs at
the same time, at which time the Sun proceeds to get almost nothing done.
I assume it is thrashing.

What we were wondering, is if it would be possible to write a script or C
program which would implement a queue for submitting batch jobs to.  The
queue program would run only 2 or 3 of the jobs submitted to it at any given
time.  Whenever one job finished, it would submit the next one in the queue.

Does such a program exist in the public domain, or does unix have some
such feature built-in.  I guess it would be something like a print queue.

Thanks for whatever help you can provide.

Jim Dahlberg

	jim_d@cimcor.mn.org