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- Subject: Re: Lingering processes - possible efficency improvement?
- Message-ID: <2FC0353A07NOV92203643@TGV.COM>
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Date: 07 NOV 92 20:36:43 GMT
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
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- > We're running MULTINET on a burdened vax 11/780 and any kind
- > of performance improvement would be of help.
-
- > In a future release of multinet would it be possible to have
- > the processes created to service SMTP and FINGER (and maybe others?)
- > linger for a short time like FAL connections do for DECNET?
-
- One of the differences between MultiNet servers and DECnet servers
- is that most MultiNet servers aren't started with a DCL behind them
- and hence avoid the extra overhead of running LOGINOUT and
- initializing DCL. We would need to do this to reuse processes the
- way DECnet does. DECnet already created processes with DCL, so it was
- no big deal to reuse them, but reusing them in MultiNet would make
- them substantially more expensive to create in the first place and not
- result in significant gains later.
-
- Ken
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