oberman@LLL-ICDC.ARPA.UUCP (02/28/87)
>1. What do the BKPBITS bits mean are these values normal? I can never remember exactly, but RMS is saying that it is unable to complete the requested operation because of a lack of a resource. >2. What is RWSWP (my guess is Resource Wait SWaPped) RWSWP is ReadWriteSWaP. This system is trying to swap a process and the swap file is full. >3. Where can I learn more about how to interpret what I get from SDA? You're not going to like this, but I can only suggest the VAX/VMS Internal Data Structures book by Kenah and Bate from Digital Press. Also, the VAX SIG offers presymposia seminars on SDA from time to time at DECUS US Symposia. 4. If this was the problem, how can I determine how much space per process should be allocated in the page and swap files. And why are so many processes being swapped out? You allowed more people to log in to the 8650 and ran out of balance set or process slots. As a result, something had to swap. Or you ran out of memory with more users. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! USE AUTOGEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It can save you a world of grief. Do a GETDATA TESTFILES INITIAL and it will tell you what size PAGE and SWAP files you need. Do NOT do a GENFILES as this will try to expand your primary swap and page files. Do not use the SAVPARAMS option as it will just propagate your current SYSGEN parameters and that's probably not desirable. Edit SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT with any parameters you would like to change. If you have a SECONDARY page or swap file, enter: PAGEFILE=0 SWAPFILE=0 so that autogen won't try to create them. (Do this after the TESTFILES.) Then do @SYS$UPDATE:AUTOGEN GETDATA REBOOT INITIAL to set up your new parameters and reboot the system. To cut down on swapping you may want to increase balance set and max proc count. Of course, if you're running out of memory this won't help. But try AUTOGEN all alone first. It may change the system parameters to where you won't need to do any manual changing. Good luck, R. Kevin Oberman LLNL arap: oberman@lll-icdc.arpa (415) 422-6955 ------