Re: Upcoming time boundary events

on 02/06/2025, Lawrence D'Oliveiro supposed :

On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 21:49:59 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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On 5/30/2025 6:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

 The irony of it, that the DEC concept requires creating a separate
server process for every client connection,

 It doesn't.
 Processes are re-used for task to task servers.

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Hmm. Presumably the process is kept around for a limited time before being shut down.
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What about multiple concurrent connections? You can’t avoid creating extra processes in that situation.

Yes there is a time out. Mechanism is built in NET$SERVER.COM if I
remember well. I think you can even customize the time out with a
logical name. It can have some side effects, some of which I did not
like. Therefore I used to terminate all my network mode procedures with
a STOP/ID=0 instead of LOGOUT, just to make sure processes would not be
re-used. Process creation used to be expensive on OpenVMS but with
today's hardware it's hardly an issue anymore.
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Marc Van Dyck