>In article <1992Jul20.135138.938@beckman.com>, dsroberts@beckman.com writes:> cluster. He did not use the STARTUP$STARTUP_VMS and STARTUP$STARTUP_LAYERED
>> ...stuff removed...
>> In any case, perhaps some of you would like to share how your startup is
>> configured so perhaps I can glean some improvements that would apply to us.
>>
>We have had very good results starting the batch queues and then sending
>jobs off in the batch queues. We cut our reboot time from 45 minutes to about
>15 minutes this way. We abandoned the DEC supplied startup since we could not
>specify the batch queue to start jobs in.
>
>By using batch queues we can also specify the exact order items are started.
Interestingly enough, I had the opportunity to view the startup procedures of
a large and strategically important Digital internal VAXcluster system.
I didn't bother to check if they were using the STARTUP$STARTUP_LAYERED data
file scheme, but they had a *lot* of startup procedures submitted to batch
queues. Almost nothing was executed during SYSTARTUP_V5. I counted at least
75 startup procedures of various products, etc, all launched in batch. I
presume they did/do not use the STARTUP_LAYERED scheme. I have noticed that
certain Digital "consultants" seem to be favoring this however.
I personally don't have enough products to even bother investigating this
bit of VMS "boot trivia", but I would favor the batch method if I did.
