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- Mark B.

John R. Wolff wrote:
> I have been working with the Workload Manager features of MPE/iX lately,
> and am quite impressed with the ability to fine tune system performance by
> finely targeting individual users and programs with higher or lower
> priority assignments, among other things.  In essence, you can subdivide
> the CS queue (for example) into sub-queues.  One of the things I did with
> it is to treat the UDC/Command File processes, that run before & after a
> core application program, differently from the program itself for overall
> better system performance.  (I realize that something like this can be done
> crudely with the PRI= options that mixes JOB queues DS & ES with CS; but,
> the Workload Manager is much more flexible than that).
>
> I am not aware of any similar control under HP-UX for individual processes,
> just kernel parameters that affect the entire system.  Is there some kind
> of HP or third party product available for HP-UX that allows this?  If not,
> this is an example of better OS design within MPE/IX compared to UNIX.
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