Scalability

Queue operation scalability is similar to the underlying database operation scalability. If a dequeue operation with wait option is issued in a Multi-Threaded Server (MTS) environment the shared server process will be dedicated to the dequeue operation for the duration of the call including the wait time. The presence of many such processes could cause severe performance and availability problems and could result in deadlocking the shared server processes. For this reason it is recommended that dequeue requests with wait option be only issued via dedicated server processes. This restriction is not enforced.