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- From: DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU (Dan Wing)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: SYSDUMP.DMP File Question...
- Message-ID: <01GT8GQOG042009SF1@VAXF.COLORADO.EDU>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 18:11:39 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Scott R. Daniels, SRD@RCKHRST1.BITNET, writes:
-
- > Is there a way to have the system look on a different disk for the
- >SYSDUMP.DMP file ?
-
- No. The crash-dump file must be on the system disk. You can, however, have
- the system write its crash-dump to the pagefile, but I believe that pagefile
- must be on the system disk to be used as a crash-dump area. This is done
- by setting SAVEDUMP to 1.
-
- >And is it also true that enough disk space should be allocated so that
- >ALL memmory can be dumped into it ?
-
- If DUMPSTYLE is 0, you need a dumpfile big enough for all of memory. If
- DUMPSTYLE is 1, use the values that AUTOGEN gives you.
-
- AUTOGEN will tell you the appropriate size depending on your setting of
- DUMPSTYLE (0=dump all memory, 1=selective dump). I'd add about 100 blocks
- to AUTOGEN's recommendation to ensure it was big enough (AUTOGEN under-
- calculated the size of a selective dump in some versions of VMS).
-
- >We just doubled our memory to 128MB, and we
- >don't really have the room to put a 262,144 block SYSDUMP file on the system
- >disk. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Use DUMPSTYLE=1, or have your crash-dump file go into your page file.
-
- -Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
- Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver
-
-