Background. I've not seen any documentation that suggests that the Task Scheduler defaults change thought.
Still seems odd that it's not visible/obvious in the GUI tbh. ________________________________ From: Andrew S. Baker [[email protected]] Sent: 24 January 2012 12:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Task Scheduler "throttling" tasks? Is the server configured to favor foreground applications or background tasks? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Turns out that the Windows 2008 Task Scheduler starts tasks at a lower than normal priority by default. Best of all you can’t see or change this through the GUI, you have to export the task to an XML file, edit the priority in the XML file, then import it again. From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 20 January 2012 17:19 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Task Scheduler "throttling" tasks? Again, I’m personally patchy on the details as I’ve not been given many yet, but the guy who looks after this box will know more about the in’s and out’s of the apps running on it than I do. He’s telling me all things are equal other than the way he’s calling the task, which for now I shall take his word on. From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> Sent: 20 January 2012 16:40 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Task Scheduler "throttling" tasks? Is there a time differential? Are you running the batch file at the same time as it would run as a scheduled task? What happens when you run the batch file manually at that time? What happens when you run the scheduled task immediately, not at it's normally scheduled time? In a networked environment, it's rarely a "batch file that does 'stuff.'" There are a lot of variables left out. The task may be irrelevant, the timing may not. Or vice versa, or both, or neither! On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Appreciate that, but I don’t know any more myself yet. It’s a general “If you’re just running a batch file that does “stuff”, would you expect a scheduled task to behave differently to an interactive task if you hadn’t done something specific to tell it to?” for now. From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 20 January 2012 16:00 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Task Scheduler "throttling" tasks? I think we need more details to of the scheduled job as well as what the task does that might be different under a scheduler vs interactively. ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Harnessing the Advantages of Technology for the SMB market… On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: We have a task (not one of mine so not sure entirely what it is/does that, when run interactively takes a certain amount of time to complete. The same task when run via a scheduled task, takes much longer to complete. Apparently it’s entirely reproducible and along the lines of a batch file being run. Any ideas why this might be assuming the info I’m being given is accurate and it’s the exact same command/script is being called via the schedule task? The OS is 2008 R2 SP1. Thanks, Paul ________________________________ MIRA Ltd ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin -- MIRA Ltd Watling Street, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0TU, England Registered in England and Wales No. 402570 VAT Registration GB 100 1464 84 The contents of this e-mail are confidential and are solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you receive this e-mail in error, please delete it and notify us either by e-mail, telephone or fax. You should not copy, forward or otherwise disclose the content of the e-mail as this is prohibited. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
