[Info-vax] Time to turn DECUServe into a mixed VMScluster?

abrsvc dansabrservices at yahoo.com
Wed May 31 10:51:16 EDT 2023


On Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 9:51:23 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2023-05-31 kl. 15:45, skrev John Reagan: 
> > On Wednesday, May 31, 2023 at 9:01:15 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> On 2023-05-31, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.... at telia.com> wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> Even better would probably be to use the offical VSI forum. 
> >>> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/ 
> >>> 
> >>> That is where the future is and where VSI replies. 
> >> VSI seem to be very hit-and-miss about whether they reply to forum 
> >> postings or not. 
> >> 
> >> For example, I see they never replied to Mark's questions and 
> >> observations about excessive kernel mode overhead, which he asked 
> >> a full month ago. :-( 
> >> Simon. 
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> >> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear. 
> > I missed those questions from Mark (and I couldn't easily find them), 
> > but the forums are not an official support channel (even with frowny faces) 
> > 
> > John
> The main point is that a forum in that form is more of what any 
> modern IT techie expect from a forum. Usenet is dying. 
> 
> I was not sayng that you'd get better answers there or such. 
> Just that it is where we want OpenVMS to belong, the "future". 
> 
> And Marks findings was some interesting observations, but not 
> much that can be said about that, with the current build 
> methods and general lack of detail refinement, I guess...

Given that is has been stated that the code is not optimized yes, I care nothing about any type of performance data at the moment other than a worksdoesn't work type of test.  The performance effort will come later.

Dan



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