Managing batch jobs without losing your mind
Why one batch sits in the queue while the others run, and how to bring order to queues, subsystems and priorities without touching anything irreversible.
Articles tagged #batch — 5 results
Jobs, subsystems and queues
How the system decides where a job runs, with how much memory and at what priority. This is the part you touch when something is slow.
CL: the language that holds the rest together
Not a second-class language: it launches the batch work, handles the errors and talks to the system. And it is the one nobody was ever properly taught.
Sending mail from a CL program
The shortest command to notify someone when a batch finishes, with no API and nothing to install.
Scheduling a job for the last day of the month
Without working out how many days the month has, and without getting leap years wrong.