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- From: pettigrew@vertex.enet.dec.com (Mike Pettigrew)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: Re: VMS Tuning
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.173207.18681@e2big.mko.dec.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 17:27:43 GMT
- References: <7892345@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Sender: guest@e2big.mko.dec.com (Guest (DECnet))
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- In article <7892345@MVB.SAIC.COM>, "CCF::GPE%hermes.mod.uk"@relay.MOD.UK writes...
- >Give me some feedback guys (and girls)!
- >
- >......
- >
- >Now from time to time, too often for my liking, I see statements like the
- >following in articles on VMS tuning:
- >
- >"... there are often tens of thousands of pages of memory left on the free page
- >list with no way for the system or processes to get to it. The goal in tuning
- >memory is to free up this unused memory and make it available for the system
- >and processes which can make good use of it"
- >
- >If I am completely deluded in my view, will somebody please tell me!
- >
-
- The default VMS tuning was established for memory-poor systems in the days
- of VAX-780's, and MICROVAX 2000's. It is not necessarily the most effective
- tuning for a memory-rich system.
-
- A system with WSEXTENT set to 2048 pages on most USERNAMES will never make
- any productive use of available free memory during moderate baseloads, and
- will be somewhat impaired by excessive traffic on the system page file.
-
- Note that most user application images require 6,000 to 10,000 pages of
- virtual memory. The unconstrained working set of these applications
- varies quite a bit, but is usually more than half of the virtual storage.
- That is what you wnat to use the "free" memory for.
-
- The goal in tuning memory usage is to reduce or eliminate page file access
- as much as possible. One access to the page file is roughly 400 times the
- delay of a 'soft' page fault.
-
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- | -Mike Pettigrew pettigrew_mi@ripple.enet.dec.com
- | (206) 661-3032
- | Digital Equipment Corporation
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