faxrunq very broken on large queues

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>>>>> "Gert" == Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> writes:

    Gert> Hi, On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 10:56:09AM -0600, Robert
    Gert> 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.  :-)

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

    Gert> 712 orders / 2 = 306 faxes per hour

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

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

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

I just purchased a Comtrol RocketPort Octa/DB25 this afternoon for
this project.  I also got a quote for 6 USR Courrier 33.6 external
modems at $199 US each.  This should do the job reliability wise.  I
realize that it is tight.  In actuality, all these figures are design
estimates, not known requirements.  I will have 6 fax modems gouing
out, one 2400 baud data modem going out (to clear credit cards), and
one fax/voice modem coming in (to handle unfillable orders and such).
The voice modem is expected to use DTMF for user data, and voice
prompts to walk him thru it.  That accounts for all 8 serial ports.

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