Hi John,

According to our code (I checked up to 6.5) the MPE SHOWPROC
command only displays BLKCB, BLKMM, WAIT and READY. We don't
display a "TIMER" .  Unless that was the result of some patch I cannot
find.

>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
  ^
   Is this the MPE version of SHOWPROC?

If I had to guess I'd say TIMER may be indicating a call to PAUSE() or
a like function, say some form of timed wait. For example, a timed read
of a message file. However the MPE SHOWPROC would only show this
as "WAIT".

FWIW I hope this helps!
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-----Original Message-----
From: John Myers <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 7:20 AM
Subject: TIMER State in SHOWPROC


>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
>