Re: [hylafax-users] batching almost there

["offman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <offman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 27, 2005, at 10:33 PM, Lee Howard wrote:

> offman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> > After looking over the programmers inhouse code  , they are now    
> > sending multiple faxes  to the same detination by delaying the  
> > jobs  for 10 minutes& ensuring the send time is exactly the same,  
> > for  groups of faxes.
>
>
> Please double-check this by looking at the files in /var/spool/ 
> hylafax/sendq and checking that the "tts" entry is exactly the same  
> for all of them.
hmm seems not

fax1 tts:1122538209
fax2 tts:1122538324
fax3 tts:1122538324

that would account for it, page 1 takes a little bit longer to process.

> > previously the code was processing the faxes  ,and calculating a  
> > 10  minute difference dased on the submittal time.
> > ( it was possible when crossing the boundry of a minute ,that  
> > they  would not ber sent in the same minute)
> > now they init the code with a 10 minute offset ,then enter the   
> > processing routines. so that faxes  are grouped together in 10  
> > minute  batches.
> >
> >
> > However I am still seeing some odd behavior some times,
> >
> > for example we send 3 faxes , to the same dest , with the same time.
> > the first fax is sent on its own.
> > but the next 2 are batched in a separate call , right after the  
> > first  call.
>
>
> This would either suggest that 1) the tts are not identical between  
> the jobs, 2) that you may not actually have that scheduler fix, or  
> 3) that the 1-second delay is not enough.
>
> In all of the testing that I've been doing over the past several  
> days (on a little PIII-500 w/128MB RAM) with this, one second has  
> always been enough for 64 jobs (the maximum batch size) that are  
> scheduled at a specific time.  I'll do some more testing with this,  
> of course, but please double-check the tts settings in the sendq  
> files and double-check your code.
>
>
> > there is only 1 modem in the system, and the latest cvs patches  
> > are  rolled in, upto & including  lee's fix with the 1 second delay.
> > the system is not loaded, and is running at less than 3%, with  
> > 1gb  memory
>
>
> You should probably update to current CVS HEAD.  There were some  
> commits yesterday related to batching that you'll want.
>
> Lee.



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