Re: [hylafax-users] batching almost there

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

offman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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


It would seem, then, that the time-to-send is not being set 
independently, but rather is being set with a relative value again.

Also, one thing that I should make you aware of before you encounter 
this on your own and we have another issue over this matter... HylaFAX 
doesn't currently maintain batches.  So just because it's batched on the 
first call, if it is retried (i.e. the first call results in a busy 
signal), HylaFAX does not attempt to keep the jobs in the same order or 
even at the same rescheduled time-to-send ("jitter" is added to the 
time-to-send on reschedules).  So if a batch does not make it through on 
the first attempt then it will be highly unlikely [with the way that the 
code currently is] that on the second attempt those jobs will be batched 
again.

I still feel like your usage of batching is a bit misappropriated.  You 
seem to be counting on the server-side batching mechanism to collate 
your pages, and that's not really what the mechanism was designed for.  
As I see it, this collation should really be happening on the 
client-side, before the job is submitted to the server for transmission.

In the case of FaxSTF, I did read the documentation on this product and 
it appears to me that the collation (the so-called "batching") is being 
done manually by the administrator/user.  So it looks to me like you 
submit a few faxes to that product and then you manually tell FaxSTF to 
collate them into one call before those are transmitted.  In HylaFAX 
terms, then, this is all being done on the client-side... even on 
FaxSTF.  To give you a HylaFAX version of the same procedure, it would 
be like submitting all of the jobs and then later, before the jobs are 
sent, for you to use something like faxalter to give them all a common 
time-to-send.

Thanks,

Lee.


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