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- From: danmz@echosphere.com (Dan Zirin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: RE: SYSDUMP.DMP File Question...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.124647.12@echosphere.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 12:46:47 MST
- References: <009664BF.0BC52900.27241@swdev.si.com> <1inl0oINNo4c@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: Echosphere/Houston Tracker Systems
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- In article <1inl0oINNo4c@gap.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:
- > .....
- > phrase "primary paging file." Please note that in recent versions of VMS you
- > do not have to have a primary paging file.
- >
- >>VMS startup will proceed just file without a page file.
- >
- > True. However, secondary page files lack some of the features associated with
- > the primary page file (the ability to be used as a dump file, for example).
-
- Are there any other side effects for managers that have no page/swap files on
- the boot drive? Is VMS non-paged until a pagefile is installed and present?
- Is the boot drive pagefile faster or better for the primary system processes
- that get created before external pagefiles are installed? Just curious...
-
- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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