On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:01:42 -0800 <[log in to unmask]> said: >Jeff wrote: >>>:ALTJOB on an EXECuting job only requires evaluating whether a different job >>>can now launch because we just freed up a slot in the queue we were in. >> >> Yuck... I see no need to alter the queue after the job reaches INTRO/EXEC. >> No, no, no; overly complicating things. > >Hmmm. Ok, maybe. The desire to move a job from the SHORT queue to the LONG >queue once it is determined that it's really going to take three hours >instead of three minutes seems pretty basic though. If it's takes longer than SHORT's CPULIM= then it should be bombed; else users will abuse the facility. >The alternative is to >increase the LIMIT on the SHORT queue by one, but then you have the problem >that when the job finishes, the limit on SHORT is one too high. Go back to my post; you would ALTJOB the waiting job into the HOT queue and away it goes. Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>