Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!cak@Purdue.ARPA From: cak@Purdue.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: none Message-ID: <16291@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 00:23:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16291 Posted: Wed Feb 8 00:23:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:36:24 EST Lines: 22 From: Christopher A KentYes, our response was the same. Our original VAX was usually swamped with about 30 people, 6 or 7 of them with troffs running in background, all getting nowhere. Bob Brown wrote a general job serializer, with multiple classes, organized so at most one job in each class is running. We currently have three troff input queues -- normal, big, and huge. Huge only run at night. Jobs are placed in the appropriate queue by length, and run shortest job first within a queue. So we have two or three troffs running at time, mean time to output is better, and everyone is happier. We also use the serializer for some of our output device spoolers; the win is that the same queue control commands are used for all these different services. I expect that this software could be made available, but don't know the details. Cheers, chris ----------