| Hi ching-U,
>1. What does the queue do ? Is it just meant for formatting
>WPS-PLUS text, according to the respective .PRA ?
Well you have answered your own question :-).
>2. If the above holds, does that mean I can disable background
> formatting for non-WPS-PLUS documents, without sacrifying response
> time ? ( eg Wordperfect document )
As far as I know WordPerfect does not use the OA$FORMATTER ie
background formatting. If you do disable the formatter any WPS-PLUS
users will not be able to format their documents in the background.
>3. Under what circumstances does the queue stop and produce a dump
> file in sys$system ?
I have seen OA$FORMATTER and OA$SCRIPT_<language> queues being
integrated into WordPerfect and this has caused them to stop and
produce stack dumps. To check do the following $show queue/device/full
OA$*, if the queue is integrated you will see it has "/CHAR=127", this
will cause problems.
To deintegrate you could just do the following $set que/nochar
queue_name. Or use the WPC command procedure as follows:
@SYS$STARTUP:WPCORP$INTEGRATE_QUEUES deintegrate -
oa$formatter,oa$script_symbiont
To ensure that you do not get the queue integrated again during
startup/system reboot do the following:
$ edit wpcorp$startup_specific.dat
Then update/add the following line:
SYS$COMMON:[SYS$STARTUP]WPCORP$INTEGRATE_QUEUES.COM I PRTSMB,LATSYM,
CPS$SMB,LPS$SMB, etc
In short the queue that will be integrated are those that have the
/PROCESSOR of the type mentioned above.
By the way another common cause of the queue stopping and producing
those dump files is the upgrade of OpenVMS. Some people (well
customers if you can call them people :-}), do not relink ALL-IN-1 IOS
and replace/copy the images as per the manual. Of course digits would
never do that now :-).
I hope I have been of some help.
Regards,
Sunil
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> 1. What does the queue do ? Is it just meant for formatting WPS-PLUS
> text, according to the respective .PRA ?
OA$FORMATTER does not just format WPS-PLUS text. It performs three types
of formatting:
1. ALL-IN-1 ASCII - this ignores the 'device type' parameter because
it produces only one type of output.
2. WPS-PLUS - the 'device type' parameter is passed to the WPS-PLUS
formatter which uses it to access a .PRA file
3. CDA - the 'device type' parameter is examined and if 'PS' the
PostScript backend converter is used, otherwise the 'TEXT' backend
converter is used.
> 2. If the above holds, does that mean I can disable background
> formatting for non-WPS-PLUS documents, without sacrifying response
time ? ( eg Wordperfect document )
If you disable background formatting then ASCII and CDA formatting will
also be done in the foreground.
> 3. Under what circumstances does the queue stop and produce a dump
> file in sys$system ?
When problems occur with code that is part of the OA$FORMATTER process,
which can be:
o the basic OA$FORMATTER module
o the ALL-IN-1 ASCII formatter
o the WPS-PLUS formatter
o the CDA run-time library and any converters it calls
o the VMS symbiont interface routines (SMBSRVSHR)
o the VMS job controller
Richard
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