[Info-vax] vms base priority watch

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 7/11/2011 9:46 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<1f612927-5e98-44e0-91e2-d889916c4f40 at gh5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, "pcoviello at gmail.com"<pcoviello at gmail.com>  writes:
>> ok well. I did ask a yes/no question! me bad!  yes I understand the
>> non-prived user would not do this but... we have given users the
>> rights to do this early in the morning to get their jobs completed,
>> when there are less users on the system.
>
>     If the system is otherwize idle at that time, that should have no affect.
>     If only some users get to do this in the ealy hours, then it's worth while.
>
>     VMS does not delay low priority processes just to make them take
>     longer, it there are no higher priority processes doing anything.
>

I can recall occasions during which a job was getting 99 percent of the 
CPU at Priority One.  The "hunt and peck" typists never noticed it!