fascinating.  i know about message files, but where can i learn about
these memory-mapped scorboard files?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: toback2 [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 1997 5:36 PM
> To:   Daniel Levite; [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: JCW limits for sessions
>
> Daniel Levite writes:
>
> >...we are running a listener that
> >launches son processes and uses about 30 jcw's for each son process.
> we
> >are not sure how many we will need but if we try to run 100 users
> that
> >would quickly add up to around 3000 jcws per session. note: im
> talking
> >vars here not jcws. and they are named based on the pin of the son
> >process.
>
> Is there any reason not to use message files or a scoreboard file
> rather
> than JCWs for this sort of interprocess communication? A memory-mapped
>
> scoreboard file that looks like an array of records/structures indexed
> by
> PIN seems like a useful solution here, given that the highest possible
>
> PIN is known in advance.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
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