Job Flow Control utility

[John Jimenez]

Is there a utility to control how many processes are run at night. Here is my issues. We have proceeses that need to run and finish by 8:00 AM every morning. If only a few other users run extra processes it is normally fine, but sometimes so many things are run it causes bottlenecks. I am looking for some way to allow the needed jobs to run. But only allow "X" number of extra processes to run. And have anything over this queued until others finish.

Any idea's?

Thanks again,
John

[Juan M Leon]

you can try nice command, This command will give priority to your process allowing the high priority process to execute before the lower priority process.

Hope helps

Juan

[John Jimenez]

Thanks Juan. I do this "nice" during working hours. But I cannot manually monitor the system 24 hours a day. All of the processes are run in for-ground and run with "20" During the day I often change them to "25". But I wonder is there is a 3rd party process management software for HP 11.11.

[David Child_1 · Accepted solution]

John,

The first thing that comes to mind is Process Resource Manager (PRM). You will need to see if you have it installed;

swlist -l product Proc-Resrc-Mgr

It should come with 11i Enterprise or Mission Critical, otherwise a separate product.

Here is some info; http://docs.hp.com/en/B8733-90011/index.html

For even more control look at Workload Manager (WLM) which I believe somes only with 11i Mission Critical (otherwise its a separate product);

http://docs.hp.com/en/B8844-90006/index.html

David

[OldSchool]

John,

We used to run a product called "BatchQ" (I can't tell from the web-site, but it might same package listed at www.batchq.com).

Basically, the queues we configured it to single thread jobs. you could lock and unlock queues via cron. queues could set the nice value for the jobs. multiple queues could be defined.

All output was routed to files.

Scott M

[John Jimenez]

Thank you very much. I am checking these out now. Any other reccomendations would be greatly appreciated.

[TwoProc]

We're using a product called QMaster on some non-HP servers. I'm pretty sure they'd have an HP version too though. It has a nice Windows gui tool to interface with it, as well as Unix command line tools.

[Juan M Leon]

Hello John, I tend to thing the same way as David Child, your best way to manage jobs and processes per CPU or per users is WorkLoad Manager you can create many configuration files to loaded at any time that you schedule them to run. I am not sure the hardware type you have but it is very efficient running npars/vpars.