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- From: "GWDGV1::MOELLER" <moeller@gwdgv1.dnet.gwdg.de>
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.internals
- Subject: RE: odd XQP behaviour
- Message-ID: <9014083@MVB.SAIC.COM>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 11:20:57 +0100
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- Nigel Arnot <NRA%ipg.ph.kcl.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk> writes:
- > Some of you may have noticed my recent posting to info-vax about VMS failing
- > to allocate a pagefile on a slightly fragmented disk, and what to do about
- > it. For those who didn't, the problem was that SYSGEN CREATE was failing to
- > allocate an 80000 block pagefile on a disk with around 200000 blocks free
- > in fragments of size over 6000 blocks. What it was doing was building a
- > file out of about four decent-sised fragments, and then filling the header
- > with all sorts of mostly tiny fragments presumably out of the extent cache.
-
- This is documented behaviour of the CBT (contiguous best try) allocation
- option, which SYSGEN is using. It will look for suitable extents only
- a limited number of times, then revert to the "standard" practice.
-
- > I have now found another funny: the same problem in reverse. A user ran
- > a FORTRAN program that generates two output files: the first stays small,
- > the second ends up at around 3000 blocks, both are opened 'NEW' (ie empty)
- > and filled with sequential writes.
-
- Just recently I've seen the same with DECPs (VPA's new name) .CPD files,
- which get pre-allocated at different (large) sizes every day; this *may*
- have something to do with the availability of free extents, but I've no
- real clue yet. This is on VMS 5.4-3.
-
- Wolfgang J. Moeller, GWDG, D-3400 Goettingen, F.R.Germany | Disclaimer ...
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