Greetings,

   Our users run an interactive program which sometimes makes them wait
for over 10 minutes for the next prompt. Below is the results of SHOWPROC
for one example along with our queue setup:

C152  0:00.388  WAIT   S613    311  :RUN NU010.PROG.BSI;LIB=G
C152  0:00.627  WAIT   S613      227  (NU010.PROG.BSI)
C200  0:01.141  TIMER  S613        586  (IRIS502.PUB.IRIS)
%SHOWQ;STATUS

                    ------QUANTUM-------
QUEUE  BASE  LIMIT  MIN    MAX    ACTUAL  BOOST  TIMESLICE
-----  ----  -----  ---    ---    ------  -----  ---------
 CQ    152    200   1      1000   6       DECAY    200
 DQ    202    238   2000   2000   2000    DECAY    200
 EQ    240    255   2000   2000   2000    DECAY    200

What is TIMER? Does that mean that since this pin has the lowest priority
number in the C queue, it will remain in TIMER for a long wile until it
finally gets another timeslice? (Doing "HELP SHOWPROC OPERATION" showed a
list of Execution States, but TIMER was not in the list.)

Thanks,

John Myers
Christopher Newport University