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- From: "Steve Thompson, Cheme System Mangler" <olin@cheme.tn.cornell.edu>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: RE: A question and an enhancement request.
- Message-ID: <0095DFF5.02DFF120.23813@cheme.tn.cornell.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:44:53 EDT
- Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
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- Brian Tillman (tillman@swdev.si.com) writes:
- >
- >John F. Sandhoff (sandhoff@csus.edu) writes:
- >
- >>My system is what I consider busy (typically over 1000 messages a day) and
- >>I don't recall seeing this problem. I seem to recall that ONCE I got
- >>a 'currently locked' error from FLQU SHOW but other than that I don't
- >>see locks. CPU speed may have a lot to do with it - MX runs on an 8820
- >>here (though sometimes at priority 1 - ouch!)
- >
- >Well, we use MX a *whole* lot less (about six people) and it's happened twice
- in
- >the past month. Now, that may seem very little, but it seems that if we
- release
- >MX to all 500 of our accounts, we could very well see this much more
- frequently.
- >This would mark MX in the minds of the Email people here as a flawed product
- and
- >we would be forced to use our previous SMTP mailer (yuck!).
- >
-
- We run MX 3.1 on a 4000/500 which has about 600 accounts on it, with usually
- 90-200 active processes for 25-40 users (there's a lot of X terminals attached).
- MX mail traffic volume is approximately 500 messages per day. I see the 'locked'
- message about once every month. I've used the WIN/TCP mailer before MX, so
- I suggest that you don't try it!
-
- >John, if you still use FLQU, then you must still be using V2.x. Perhaps this
- >problem didn't exist in versions prior to V3.x (we're using V3.1C).
- >
- >At any rate, thanks for the comments.
- >
- >If anyone else can comment on incoming mail locking SYSTEM_QUEUE.FLQ_CTL in
- such
- >a way as to elicit file locked errors from VMS mail when trying to *send* using
- >MX% as the transport, please comment as well.
-
- Well, I've seen it twice in about a year. Only one other person on my
- system has complained to me about this. I don't consider it a big
- problem.
-
- Steve
-