faxrunq very broken on large queues

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Hi,

On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:56:09AM -0600, Robert J. Brown wrote:
> [faxrunqd]
>
> I am glad to hear this, as I am currently working on a web based order 
> enrty project that will take orders over the web and fax the orders to 
> the respective vendors.  I will be running 6 fax lines and will need
> to process 712 orders (1 fax per order) per day, concentrated in 2
> periods of one hour each.  Each order results in a single page fax
> being sent, so during peak load, I need to send a fax every 10
> seconds.  Hopefully faxrunqd will be up to the job.  :-)

Hmmm, that's *pretty* tight, but should be doable.  Let's see.

712 orders / 2 = 306 faxes per hour

306 fph / 6 modems = 50 faxes per modem and hour = approx. 1 minute per
job.

Should be doable just fine if you don't have many retransmissions and
BUSYs.  But it's tight, if your Telco switch is slow at dialing (we have
one of those).

faxrunqd should manage that happiliy.  There is one "snag" right now: if
one modem goes bad (too many failures), it will be "phased out" and the
other ones will be used more and more.  Faxrunqd won't tell you about it,
though, so you'll have to watch it if you have not-so-reliable modems.

gert
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