[net.bugs.uucp] PKSPEEDUP on systems without nap

lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (02/14/85)

In a recent message, Peter suggested that PKSPEEDUP was useful in
general for UUCP implementations.  I asked him for a clarification
on one point, the gist of which I pass along here.  His earlier comment
should only be considered to apply to UUCP's running on systems that have
a nap() function or some other way to do sleeps of less than
one second AND which have "fixed" their PKSPEEDUP code as
per his submission of a few days ago.  In general, no form of
PKSPEEDUP should be used if it is going to result in a minimum
sleep length of one second.  That is, if your system does NOT
give you a means to do sleeps of less than one second OR if
your version of PKSPEEDUP does not include his fix that makes
use of fractional second sleeps, PKSPEEDUP should NOT be used,
since it can drastically slow down communications under either 
of these conditions.

--Lauren--