Electronic apparatus capable of controlling order in which jobs are executed, control method therefor, and storage medium

A control method for an electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with at least one external apparatus, and for which maximum power consumable by all of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus is determined in advance, and has a storage unit that stores a list indicating jobs planned to be executed by respective ones of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, and indicating that an order in which the jobs planned to be executed are executed is an order in which the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus have received the jobs, comprising:

• an order determination step of, based on the list stored in the storage unit, determining whether the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list;
• a receiving step of receiving, from any one of the at least one external apparatus, a completion notification indicating that the job executed by the external apparatus has been completed;
• an obtaining step of obtaining power consumption from all of the at least one external apparatus when it is determined in said order determination step that the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list, and the completion notification is received in said receiving step;
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• an execution step of executing the job planned to be executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus obtained in said obtaining step and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job planned to be executed is smaller than the maximum power consumption.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method for an electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with at least one external apparatus, and for which maximum power consumable by all of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus is determined in advance, and has a storage unit that stores a list indicating jobs planned to be executed by respective ones of the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus, and indicating that an order in which the jobs planned to be executed are executed is an order in which the at least one external apparatus and the electronic apparatus have received the jobs, the control method comprising:

• an order determination step of, based on the list stored in the storage unit, determining whether the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list;
• a receiving step of receiving, from any one of the at least one external apparatus, a completion notification indicating that the job executed by the external apparatus has been completed;
• an obtaining step of obtaining power consumption from all of the at least one external apparatus when it is determined in the order determination step that the job planned to be executed by the electronic apparatus is next on a waiting list, and the completion notification is received in the receiving step;
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• an execution step of executing the job planned to be executed when a sum of total power consumption of the at least one external apparatus obtained in the obtaining step and power consumed when the electronic apparatus executes the job planned to be executed is smaller than the maximum power consumption.