From: Alan Greig [agreig@my-deja.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 11:00 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: SYSGEN XQPCTL2 (Was Re: VMS success story) In article <8anrls$jma@newton.cc.rl.ac.uk>, "Richard Brodie" wrote: > > "Alan Greig" wrote in message news:8ann7v$au6 $1@nnrp1.deja.com... > > In article <8am7h6$qko$1@pyrite.mv.net>, > > "Bill Todd" wrote: > > > If they're creating a new file for each mail message received, then > > the > > > problem is not in RMS but rather in the synchronous nature of ODS- 2 > > > directory and file meta-data handling. > > > > Setting XQPCTL2 = 1 (improved concurrency) makes a considerable > > difference in recent releases of VMS. > > Is it documented anywhere except in some ancient release notes? I > can understand it being off by default for a transitional period but it > was all a long time ago, and it's still the VMS and AUTOGEN default. I've noticed on our 7.2-1 systems the default has been changed to 1. However the SYSGEN help text still claims the default is 0 and should not be changed unless "Compaq recommends that you do so" Anyone from VMS engineering any comments on this? -- Alan Greig Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.