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From: jeff@ISI-VAXA.ARPA (Jeffery A. Cavallaro)
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Subject: GENERIC BATCH QUEUES
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 02:26:00 EST
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Over a period of time, I have noticed the following problems with generic
batch queues within a cluster environment:

1.  Significant skew among the CPU time-of-day clocks causes havoc cluster
    wide.  Jobs in a generic batch queue may be prematurely released for
    execution to a specific queue.  (sounds probable)

2.  Cluster formation/reduction activity appears to have a weird effect
    on the various job controllers on the CPUs.  Running batch jobs get
    blown away by the JOBCTLr,

Has anyone else noticed any of these situations?  They may just be big
coincidences.

						Jeff