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- From: marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Bob Marshall)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Boot-time quotas
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.193332.1613@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:33:32 GMT
- References: <01GMZG9FUSS200008J@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Sender: news@enterprise.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com
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- Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
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- In article <01GMZG9FUSS200008J@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>, DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing) writes:
- >Bob Marshall, marshall@force.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com, wrote:
- >
- >>Where does the system initialization process get its quota values from? I
- >>had always assumed that it was from the UAF record for username SYSTEM,
- >>but it appears that they actually come from the settings of the PQL
- >>SYSGEN parameters.
- >
- >It comes from the PQL_Dxxx SYSGEN parameters.
-
- Well, not quite. I did some experimenting and found that the PGFLQUOTA,
- FILLM, and ENQLM quotas do *NOT* come from the PQL parameters. These
- quotas apparently come from hard-coded values in the call to $CREPRC
- which creates the STARTUP process. These values are evidently
- 20000 for PGFLQUOTA, 60 for FILLM, and 100 for ENQLM, and there is
- no way to change them (according to CSC), other than defining the
- corresponding PQL_Mxxx parameter (the minimum value) to be higher.
- This is probably not a good idea, since it overrides any lower values
- in UAF records.
-
- >>My evidence is that I run an image from SYSTARTUP_V5.COM
- >>which requires a page file quota of about 26,000, and I was getting an
- >>"Exceeded quota" error from the image activator. Since username SYSTEM
- >>has a page file quota of 150,000 I was a little bit surprised.
- >
- >You can RUN/DETACH it, or submit it to a batch queue, and it will use the
- >quotas and limits established in the SYSUAF for user SYSTEM instead of using
- >the PQL_Dxxx values.
-
- I think it needs to be RUN/DETACH/AUTHORIZE. In this case, the program
- reads its inputs from the subsequent lines in the command procedure, so
- I'd have to use /INPUT, too, and then it starts to get too messy, so I've
- resigned myself to executing the image from a batch job.
-
- Anyone know the reason these three quotas appear to be hard-coded and
- unchangeable for the STARTUP process? The only thing I can think is that
- if you tinker with them and screw them up you could render the system
- unbootable.
-
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