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- From: tillman@swdev.si.com ("Brian Tillman, Smiths Industries, VAX Support, x8425")
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- Subject: RE: SYSDUMP.DMP File Question...
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 14:23:40 GMT
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- Richard B. Gilbert (dragon@nscvax.princeton.edu) writes:
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- > It is also possible to write a dump to your primary paging file
- >(which must reside on the system disk).
-
- While I think that Richard means that *if* you want to use your page file as a
- dump file as well, *then* the page file must be on the system disk, I want to
- clarify this statement.
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- Unless you do want to use your page file as a dump file as well, VMS V5.x does
- not require any page file on the system disk. The concept of primary/secondary
- page files was eliminated when VMS was altered to allow up to four page files
- (none of which need to be on the system disk). VMS startup will proceed just
- file without a page file. In phase DEVICES (the second phase of startup to
- run), startup runs SYS$STARTUP:VMS$DEVICE_STARTUP.COM. This procedure in turn
- executes SYS$MANAGER:SYPAGSWPFILES.COM (if it exists), in which you mount the
- paging disk(s) and install the page file(s). Once this procedure runs, a page
- file will then be available for any subsequent processes.
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