[Info-vax] vms base priority watch

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 7/11/2011 11:09 AM, pcoviello at gmail.com wrote:
> 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 at PriorityOne.  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
> accounting 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?
>

Accounting is not going to tell you who issued a command unless that 
command created a process.  In Unix you can't blink without starting a 
process or two.  Not so in VMS!

Maybe you should back up a bit and define the problem you are trying to 
solve!