Hi Joe,<div><br></div><div>I myself am not an expert in maui/torque, but I've been using them for a while now and I couldn't find any reference on available manual to workaround your issue. However, sometimes I also need run several small jobs and, in order to avoid this queue latency I put in the submission script the list of programs to be run. This way, the torque/maui system will be running only one script that will call all your programs to be executed.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Regarding this issue, I'd like to address a comment/question. As far as I could notice, the first action Maui takes when receiving a job to queue, is to include it as "Blocked". Then, it checks if any policy (mainly present in maui.cfg) or system constraint (i.e. job asks to be run in 10 processors/machine when there's no such hardware in queue) prevents the job to be promoted to "Idle". If everything is ok, the job is promoted to "Idle" and then to "Active" if there are resources available. Is it what really happens? Maybe it's the main point for those 2 seconds latency that you are experiencing.</div>
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