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Comment on: Building a fair multi-tenant queuing system
I'm thinking about relatively simple systems and not "real" fairness. The case where I've seen this being a bit problematic is with such a queue in an application where jobs are sometimes inserted in large bursts. It doesn't actually matter much if they are truly fair, but in the cases where a large number of jobs is inserted at once the result is that for some tenants the queue doesn't seem to move at all.It's not a huge problem in that case because the regular priority system still puts the urgent jobs at the front of the queue. But it does sometimes cause confusion for someone looking at th