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Re: Max IO queue in Glance
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Jul 2002 00:46:11 -0400
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Jeff Woods wrote:

> There is (or at least "was" some years back when I wore a different company
> hat) a vulnerability in MPE/iX that would cause a SystemAbort if the disc
> request queue overflowed; but I think that didn't happen until there were
> many thousands of pending disc IOs.

I don't remember a system abort, but there was a warning message to that
effect in a latter Classic release (MPE V/P or V/E?) when the disk queue
filled up.  May have been started when MPE cached reads.

Jeff

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