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• Messages are unscheduled and are executed only during the
‘system overhead’ portion of the Logix5550 execution. Therefore,
messages can take a fairly long time to complete the data transfer.
• You can improve the transfer time by increasing the system
overhead time slice, but this diminishes the performance of the
continuous task.