Bob,
        I was curious about that myself so I kept an eye on it one weekend
(issued Q PROCESS commands periodically and redirected them to a file).
It looks like Expire processing occurs in the order that you add your
client nodes to the ADSM server.

Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Price, Robert R.[SMTP:pricerr AT WESTINGHOUSE DOT COM]
>Sent:  Tuesday, August 06, 1996 3:52 PM
>To:    Multiple recipients of list ADSM-L
>Subject:       Order of client node processing in expiration
>
>Has anyone figured out how to predict the order that client nodes are
>processed in tasks like "expire" and "audit license".  These can be
>long
>running tasks and it would often be useful in determining how much
>longer the processing will take.  "query node" lists nodes in
>alphabetical order.  This is not the order used in "expire", although
>it
>appears that expire uses the same order each time it runs.  I suspect
>that the order used, is the order in which the clients were registered,
>but I don't know this for sure, nor do I remember how I registered the
>clients.
>
>Bob Price
>