Re: Faxing:

Who are they?

Richard Jackson wrote:

> You're right and, whoever they are, they're wrong. I cannot think of a
> reason to perform a read no-wait on a data queue unless they are doing read
> no-waits on three of four data queues.
>
> Used to be that if a job was waiting on a data queue, endsbs wouldn't kill
> it.  I don't think that is true any more.
>
> Richard Jackson
> mailto:richardjackson@richardjackson.net
> http://www.richardjacksonltd.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of John Earl
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 4:21 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Faxing:
>
> There is at least one popular Fax package that reads a data queue several
> times a
> second to see if there is anything to do.  This seems to me to be incredibly
> wasteful, and a constant drain on system resources (wouldn't it make more
> sense
> to read the data queue with an unlimited wait (or even a long wait) and only
> process the entry when there is real work to do?)
>
> Hopefully you'll do a test of the fax packages, and do a little further
> inquiry
> on any chew up 3-5% of CPU resources even when there is nothing to do.
>
> jte
>

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