nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.ARPA (06/18/87)
>I recently put more memory on a vax 750 and when I >used AUTOGEN to modify the system paramaters I discovered >a very painful "feature". It turns out that AUTOGEN >decided that I needed larger paging and swapping files >so it went ahead and created them. When the system >rebooted ("tried to reboot" that is) it choked saying >something to the effect that the paging and swapping files >were too fragmented to continue (boom). Wonderful... >So I decided to do a stand alone backup and reorganize >the disk. (Boom) It turns out that it too needs these >files. This is simple to fix. Simply add the following lines to your MODPARAMS.DAT file: PAGEFILE=0 SWAPFILE=0 and AUTOGEN will not re-size your page and swap files for you (when you least expect it). = Frank J. Nagy = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510