info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (03/20/85)
From: Richard Garland <OC.GARLAND@CU20B.ARPA> I have a 730 with *only* 1 Meg. of memory (I know: "Buy more memory"). It has several times got into a very bad state: it will suddenly allocate a huge number of SRP's (small request packets: can be shown with SHOW MEMORY command). The SYSGEN default for my machine is 400 SRP's and it will stay that way with about 300 used and 100 free for a week or two then suddenly it will skyrocket. Today there were 1600 SRP's with over 1500 in use. I didn't know it could allocate these on the fly but it does. The system at that point slowed to a crawl (from a slow walk). I rebooted and we are back to "normal". What is happening? Is there too much or too little pool allocated? Is it due to my small memory size? Is it a bug or a feature? Rg -------