Do jobs with priority set get executed right away?

[s-lukashenka-micoworks]

Let's say I have enqueued a decent amount of jobs without any priority settings, and they are being processed rather slowly. If I put a job with a (higher) priority will it be picked right away over the already enqueued jobs?

[manast]

The priority determines the order in which the jobs are picked from the queue. The highest priority you can have in BullMQ is no priority, so a job with a priority larger than 0 will always be picked up from the queue after the jobs that have no priorities. If jobs are being processed slowly the question is if they are being processed slowly by the process function that you provided (maybe the operation is slow?), or if the jobs are being picked up slowly from the queue? but in any modern machine and without many workers it is easy to achieve 10k jobs per second.

[s-lukashenka-micoworks]

@manast Thank you for the response!
I mentioned jobs being processed slowly in this case is just to describe the situation in more detail, it does not mean that is an issue in this particular case.
Under the requirements I have what is more important is at what speed the jobs are enqueued: there is a queue that can get hogged from one source if the jobs are enqueued too fast, so I am considering means of making it possible to process late-coming jobs without having to wait for the already enqueued ones to finish. I do use groups already for different purposes so I cannot use it for this purpose.