bpm@psuecl.bitnet (09/24/90)
I am designing a distributed computing programming language, and have run into a major problem. I am using Unix Sys V, and _thought_ I could use Inter-Process Communications (especially message queues) to have processes communicating with each other. My Unix system seems to have a message limit of 40 outstanding, and 4096 bytes total. This is highly inadequate for my purposes. Questions, then, are: 1) What mechanisms are available in Mach for IPC and RPC, and what are their limits? 2) Is there any way of circumventing the Unix queue limits? 3) Is there any way of creating a shared memory segment larger than 65K? 4) What is ISIS? Hermes? Can I possibly use them as backbones for interprocess message handling? 5) What are some good resources for learning more about IPC (in general) and Mach? Please e-mail responses to me. I will summarize. Thanks in advance. Brian -- // Brian P. Moquin // Graduate Student, Engineering Science and Mechanics, Penn State // bpm@ecl.psu.edu // moquin@jazz.psu.edu