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- From: Dan Wing <DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: Maximum wsmax: can it be increased ?
- Message-ID: <01GRDFDW0AR600NMV9@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 11:18:37 -0700 (MST)
- Organization: Macro32<==>Vmsnet.Internals Gateway
- X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
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- >Under VMS 5.5-2 the maximum value for wsmax is 400000 pages.
- [...]
- >but if a process opens that file (or all the files),
- >he can't have more than 400000 pages im memory.
-
- There is a bug (or *was* a bug) in the swapper that it couldn't swap in a
- process that had more than (something close to) 65,535 pages. You may want
- to ensure this bug is fixed in V5.5-2, or make the process non-swappable.
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
-