Any backburner users here? I've been setting up a render farm for my department, and have cleared most of the obstacles so far. Students are getting renders submitted and are getting back frames (sometimes).

One thing I haven't been able to determine yet is how to get backburner to distribute tasks from multiple jobs concurrently. There is a manager setting for "Max concurrent jobs" so it seems to me that given three jobs submitted at about the same time with the same priority, it should send out some tasks from the first, then some from the second and some from the third and carry on like that. Currently, it seems (albeit with a small sample size) that it entirely completes one job before continuing to the next.

PS I know Genny has done some work extending backburner; I may try to install the script/mod on the render machines, as it seems like it could be very useful.