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- Path: sparky!uunet!mitech!gjc
- From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: VMS tuning for a vaxcluster (LAVC)
- Message-ID: <2504@mitech.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 18:11:46 GMT
- Organization: Mitech Corporation, Concord MA
- Lines: 36
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- This talk about FPL etc has reminded me to ask a question
- about VAXCLUSTER (LAVC) behavior.
-
- The behavior of the VMS memory management with respect to the FPL
- and installed images is said to reduce the amount of disk activity
- required when activating commonly used images, as long
- as the amount of free pages available allows pages from your favorite image
- to remain in the FPL.
-
- Correct?
-
- Now. My question is, what good does this do in a VAXCLUSTER environment,
- specifically a LAVC environment? Here a page fault consists
- of both a trip over the ethernet and a trip to disk.
-
- Obviously if a satelite has the pages of an image already in memory,
- then you will winning big, avoiding a trip across the ethernet and everything.
-
- But what about the trip to disk? Is there a way to avoid that?
-
- The LAVC server node may have plenty of free memory, but it may have *never*
- activated any of the images that people on the LAVC's are interested in.
-
- Even if it had activated those images, would there be any optimization
- available? (That is, does the vaxcluster lavc disk server -know- that
- pages from a disk file may already be available in memory?)
-
- My current situation is that I have a VAXSTATION-3200 with plenty
- of free memory serving as a LAVC boot node, and I'm interested in
- any hacks available to speed things up.
-
- In VMS 5.4-3 I was using the hack of having all images from SYS$SYSTEM
- and SYS$SHARE also available on the local hard disk. That is a bit hackish,
- so I didn't bother re-doing that for VMS 5.5.
-
- -gjc
-