The scheduler maintains a linked list of currently backlogged queues.
While the NSF dispenses grants within months, other departments are slowed by vested interests and imposing backlogs of records managed under legacy systems.
Last December the inspector general found that the clerks who put information about dangerous or illegal immigrants into the database managed to enter from 62 to 93 such records each business day last fall and had a backlog of 1,610 records, with more of them pouring in all the time.
In the five months after Mike Hunter, Pruitt's successor, took over, his office cleared a backlog of open-records requests that dated back to 2014. .
Entering into the fourth quarter of 2004, Smith Micro Software reported a backlog of $2 million, a record for the company.
Economists say mortgage rates that are the lowest in two years, a record pace of new-home sales and a record backlog of orders are keeping builders busy.
ARM has a record backlog of orders.
Puma started 2004 with a record backlog of orders worth 722 million euros, up 36percentt from a year earlier.
Both Airbus, of Europe, and its U.S. arch rival, Boeing, can also take comfort from their record backlog of orders.
A rebound in commodity demand and higher oil prices have increased mining and energy contracts, helping Fluor reach record backlog of $37.2 billion.
On the civil side, aircraft manufacturers are buoyant, with new products to display and a record backlog of orders.
