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From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Re: Virtual memory exhausted on ANALYZE/CRASH
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 15 Oct 92 15:07:23 PDT
References: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
Organization: Beckman Instruments
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
> I've gotten lot's of responses saying that VIRTUALPAGECNT is probably the
> culprit.  I think I need to give more information :-)
>
> I have a cluster with 6610, 6420 and 6410.  They use a common sysdump.dmp and
> uaf.  The 6610 and 6420 have idential virtualpagecnt (270144) and memory
> (262144 pages).  The 6610 has no problem reading the dump, the 6420 gets
> virtual memory exhausted using the same USERNAMES.  They have identical size
> pagefiles (and number of pagefiles).
>
> I can try increasing virtualpagecnt, but then I would need to understand why it
> would work at the current level on the 6610.  Any further thoughts?
>
Well, thanks to Aaron Leonard, who suggested what to look at when the problem
occurs.  Indeed, on the 6420 I use all of virtualpagecnt.  Now, with all the
mentioned things being equal, why does it work with the 6610?
--
   Don Roberts                   Internet:  [e-mail]
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   humanists and atheists, anyway?