# Jobs concurrency - Ansible Tower

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/jobs-concurrency-ansible-tower/20908>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [March 17, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/jobs-concurrency-ansible-tower/20908 "2016-03-17T18:26:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![a\_akin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@a\_akin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/a_akin)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/jobs-concurrency-ansible-tower/20908/1 "2016-03-17T18:26:05Z")

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Jobs scheduled via Ansible Tower are sometimes backlogged for as much as 3 days and it appears only one job is being run at any one time. Any suggestions on how to change this and make jobs run concurrently?

This document - [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/2.2.0/html/userguide/jobs.html#job-concurrency](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/2.2.0/html/userguide/jobs.html#job-concurrency) isn’t very clear on how to achieve this.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/jobs-concurrency-ansible-tower/20908/2 "2016-03-17T19:57:26Z")

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