Re: CPU utilization, Priority, and Throughput

["Charly Jones" <charly301@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use WRKSYSACT to find out if this is happening.
It is the only command that I know of that shows the
actual run priority that a job is currently running with.
All other commands show the run priority that was requested when
the job started.

Charly Jones
"Geezer in Gig Harbor"

>From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@attglobal.net>
>From: Richard Jackson <richardjackson@richardjackson.net>
>
> >I am concerned when the elapsed time for a priority 50 batch job is
> >significantly increased when a priority 99 job runs and there are no
> >obviously-overloaded components.
>
>
>The only time I know of that this happens is when there is a lock
>held by the lower priority job that the higher priority job wants.  The 
>lower priority job will then have its priority
>raised in an attempt to release said lock sooner.
>
>This has been in the system for some time.
>

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