That is already how it works. Commands coming over the TCPGUI port by
which the web interface interfaces with LISTSERV get highest
priority. Of course if it's already busy with a mail command when the
command comes in, it will finish that first.

Francoise

On 24 Feb 2004 at 11:08, Bill Verity <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I believe when the server is backed up with incoming jobs the web
> interface gets almost no service, by design.  I don't think this is
> true with .mail files that are waiting to be delivered by smtp.  I
> have no idea how the code works, but I believe it would be fine to
> slow down the job flow to give the web interface better service.  My
> rationale is that a person is waiting on the other end and once we
> get them started they will sit there and think for a while so the
> server can to back to working on jobs.  I'd rather give better
> response time to the person at the expense of a little slower job
> turnaround. What do you think?
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