We are running XIB to process hundreds of customer orders a day; additionally we supply an acknowledgement back. Each account has its own directory where orders are placed and we have a script that will run every 5 seconds, looks in the directoy of each of the 1000+ accounts and process files it finds. We use the LIST command to search the directories for files, this mdoes mean search every directory regardless of contents
We often have delays of up to one hour unless we restart the application or the system hangs. Questions —
Any Reason for the system hanging, how can we speed up the process, is their a limit to the amount of directories that can be setup and can we search the directories in ma more efficient way.
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