RFC 411 (rfc411) - Page 2 of 2
New MULTICS Network Software Features
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Allocate Handling
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Output to systems which give small allocations has long been a
problem, both to the remote user (who experienced frequent pauses
in the output at his terminal) and to the Multics "Network
Daemon" process (which encountered considerable inefficiency
because of being frequently awakened to process the ALL control
messages). To alleviate this, we have introduced interrupt-time
code which processes the ALL's and outputs the next group of
bytes without causing the Network Daemon to take a wakeup. As
attendees of the ICCC will have already observed, response is far
superior under the new scheme. (System Programmers responsible
for NCP's might be interested to know that some 75% of our
control-message processing deals with ALL's.)
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