[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/28/2020 8:22 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2020-11-28 kl. 03:47, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> On 11/27/2020 9:00 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> If the intention is to buffer 10000's or 100000's of messages,
>>> VMS mailboxes looks as the wrong tool from the toolbox...
>>
>> Yes. That was sort of my point.
>>
>> But if the writer is not blocking and the reader is
>> slower than the writer then some messages can queue up.
> 
> Right. But now, I didn't really understood the original question.
> I thought that, in a normal setup, and if the "reader" stops reading
> from the queue, the writer can rather quickly get into RWMBX (I think
> that is the state) where the process i blocked due to a "full mailbox".
> And that is *way* before you reach 64K messages.

Yes - that is the normal scenario. But Marc had configured his
mailbox for a million messages.

Arne