Jeff writes:

> > Ack...the FCONTROL 6 is *TERRIBLE* for system performance!

> At any rate, *YES*, the FCONTROL 6 is indeed *TERRIBLE*.  I patched
...
> Does the FCONTROL 6 act like a :purge and do a "zero fill" of the
...

no...it does a post of the entire file to disk ... the cost of
this operation increases with the increase in main memory and
the increase in the size of the message file (the limit,
not the EOF).  As further insult, the writers are probably locked
out of the file during the operation, thus slowing them down too!

Stan


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