[Info-vax] vms base priority watch

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Jul 11, 10:43 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 7/11/2011 9:46 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>
> > In article<1f612927-5e98-44e0-91e2-d889916c4... at gh5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>, "pcovie... at gmail.com"<pcovie... 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 lowpriorityprocesses just to make them take
> >     longer, it there are no higherpriorityprocesses doing anything.
>
> I can recall occasions during which a job was getting 99 percent of the
> CPU atPriorityOne.  The "hunt and peck" typists never noticed it!

thanks everyone,  I know it isn't the best solution, but as I said I
just started the job and need to pick and choose what comes first...
thinking about this some more and doing some digging I thought
accountng would tell you who might have issued a command?   after a
year some things are still fuzzy, so haven't come up with anything
yet, but I'm wondering as someone pointed out that what if they hit
the time between the hour!  so it might be best to see if I can audit
who issued the command and see what time?  any ideas?

thanks
Paul