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- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: re: re:... idle terminals
- Message-ID: <9055342@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- From: "Bob George" <BOB@aeneas.ims.disa.mil>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 12:13:00 EST
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
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- Subj: re: idle terminal...
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- # A week ago I posted code to periodically increment the process
- # I/O count so that idle job killers wouldn't kill it.
-
- Thanks, I saved it, but haven't had a chance to look at it closely yet.
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- # Hunter et all offered clever ditties to set the delete pending
- # and exit pending flags, preventing those from being applied.
- #
- # HOWEVER, all those require explicit code be run by the user
- # before termination can occur. In the event that the user was
- # disconnected (terminal, non vtas) or killed (batch job termination)
- # then that process is STUCK until $cmkrnl intervention.
-
- Yep, that is a problem - it stays in a COM state (only at priority 0), but
- that can add a bit of needless time when looking at the overall system
- performance, response, etc.
-
-
- # Lastly on the issue of NODELETE and FORCEX... there is nothing
- # A week ago I posted code to periodically increment the process
- # I/O count so that idle job killers wouldn't kill it.
- # stopping anyone from creating an exit handler which unwinds past
- # the $exit and the $forcex. It takes a bit of code out of $unwind
- # plus some stack fixup (and you have to dismiss the ast frame) but
- # it works. If it weren't Sunquest proprietary I'd post it.
-
- To say nothing of someone else writing into your PSL and clearing those
- several bits (although you could run into problems if something else
- needed them set, but not too likely since most routines that want them
- set ignore them if they are already set).
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-
- # I'm still looking for a better solution than mine, that requires
- # NO user intervention at logout... however until I find one, a
- # repeating tqe in p1 space works for me :)
-
- Here's a stupid comment about just being killed by an idle terminal
- monitor. Aren't there a few flavors of them that are on the internet
- along with a commercial one or two that allows you to configure them
- to ignore certain usernames/terminals/... Get one of them???
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- What!!! No Bruce Shirt??? How much for the EHUD shirts - send the shirt
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