RE: adjust wait time to acquire an object

From: smith5646@xxxxxxxxx
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: adjust wait time to acquire an object
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 11:23:57 -0400

Just be careful shortening times. I previously worked in an Island Pacific
environment which HEAVILY uses PF and LF members. Our system admin decided
60 seconds was too long of a wait time so he changed everything to a couple
seconds. With the amount of activity on some files, the system could not get
the lock it needed to add or remove a member in that short period of time
and jobs blew up all over the place. That was quite a while ago and systems
are much faster and probably handle adding and removing members more
efficiently but thought it was worth pointing out.

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary
Thompson
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 9:22 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: adjust wait time to acquire an object

Is there a way to specify the amount of time a program waits for a resource
?
For example, is there a way to tell the OS that I only want to wait 15
seconds to read and lock a data area ?
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