[Info-vax] vms base priority watch

[pcoviello at gmail.com]

On Jul 11, 12:01 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 7/11/2011 11:09 AM, pcovie... at gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Jul 11, 10:43 am, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>
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> >> On 7/11/2011 9:46 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
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> >>> 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.
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> >>>      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.
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> >>>      VMS does not delay lowpriorityprocesses just to make them take
> >>>      longer, it there are no higherpriorityprocesses doing anything.
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> >> 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!
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> > 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?
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> 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!
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> Maybe you should back up a bit and define the problem you are trying to
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opps thought that's what I did but maybe not.. looking for a way to
see who set priority during the day and what time to make sure they
are not abusing it outside the hours they are allowed too...

thanks
Paul