QUEUE enters a "Stopped Pending" state

[Chaim Budnick]

OK!

The current maxprocesscnt is 155, with 14 free.

What about the BALSETCNT' should this be increased as well? It is currently set to 180.

Chaim

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Chaim,

Just an advise: never set BALSETCNT higher than MAXPROCESSCNT.
BALSETCNT governs the maximum number of processes resident (= inswapped) on a VMS system, MAXPROCESSCNT governs the maximum number of processes (= inswapped + outswapped) on the system.

Kris

[Chaim Budnick]

OK!

What would be reasonable values then for these two SYSGEN parameters?

Chaim

[Kris Clippeleyr]

Chaim,

Reasonable value for MAXPROCESSCNT depends on your configuration (available memory, etc.)
Enter a line in MODPARAMS.DAT, something like:
MIN_MAXPROCESSCNT = 200
And thereafter run AUTOGEN from GETDATA through TESTFILES, and see what AUTOGEN thinks the value should be.

Success,

Kris

[Bojan Nemec]

Chaim,

From the sysgen help sys_param BALSETCNT:

"Never set BALSETCNT to a value higher than 2 less than MAXPROCESSCNT."

Maybe you should look to this (and the rest of this page)
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/DOC/73final/6491/6491pro_012.html#adjust_balsetcnt

The reasonable value depends on yours environment.

Bojan

[Chaim Budnick]

I ran autogen with min_maxprocesscnt = 200 and nothing out of the ordinary was detected by autogen. I perused the report file and nothing else was modified to a value higher than the current.

So, I will set the value to 200.

Chaim

[Bojan Nemec]

Chaim,

Check if BALSETCNT was computed to 198. If the value is lower you will have outswaped processes when the process count excede BALSETCNT.

BALSETCNT is a dynamic parameter so you can change it without reboot.

Bojan

[Chaim Budnick]

AUTOGEN didn't modify or suggest modifying the BALSETCNT. I was tempted to modify manually, however even the value of 180 is much higher than the maximum ever used.

Thanks for the "warning"

Chaim

[Bradford Hamilton_1]

>BALSETCNT is a dynamic parameter so you can >change it without reboot.

Minor nit - BALSETCNT is not dynamic.

[Bojan Nemec]

Sorry for the dynamic.

Bradford,

Thanks, I look at VMS 7.3-2 where BALSETCNT seems to be dynamic.

Bojan