[Info-vax] Queue entry numbers

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Thu Apr 18 15:39:20 EDT 2024


On 18/04/2024 20:35, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 4/18/2024 3:24 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> Much to my annoyance, mu X86 VMS instances insist on resetting the 
>> queue entry number to 1 after a reboot, rather than carrying on where 
>> it left off
>>
>> I remember sorting this in the past, ISTR when we set up the I64 
>> machines, but cannot find anything in my notes, nor in the docs
> 
> Not an answer but two questions:
> 1) Why? Shouldn't entry number be sort of just identifying
>     without any meaning to value?
> 2) Have you considered what will happen when max is reached?
> 
> Arne

Not really a problem, but it confuses me!

ISTR that if you didn't use  too many, it rolled at 999, but if you had 
many it extended to 4 digits, as it did on our work machines, then 
rolled at 9999 which carried on

-- 
Chris




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