On Sunday 28 May 2006 20:09, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Sunday 2006-05-28 at 14:15 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
As an aside - batch still exists - batch is everything that is not realtime or interactive/on-line. An interactive/on-line transaction is something with a less than 3sec response time. Compiling the Linux kernel is batch.
IMO, batch is anything running under the 'batch' command, nothing else.
No, /usr/bin/batch represents yet another redefinition of the term, bringing it even further away from what it originally meant. A "batch" of jobs is simply a group of jobs run together, usually with some sort of dependency, so that if job n fails, n+1 doesn't run /usr/bin/batch is just a way of running a low priority job when system resources aren't used for something more important