OpenVMS 7.3-2, too process in Swapped Out state

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Try diff sys$system:setparams.dat ;-3
(replace ;-3 with the version that was 7.3-1.

May be important parameters were changed during the upgrade (e.g. wsmax). Post the result of diff.

Wim

[rison so_1]

SETPARAMS.DAT;41 is from the 10/JUL/06 and SETPARAMS.DAT;13 is from the 11/MAY/06.

Upgrade was done on the 10/JUN/06

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

I only see minor differences that can't explain the swapped out unless your system was already "full as an egg" (btw : you maxproc was at 732, not 600).

But as long as you don't have performance problems, nothing is wrong. If the inswap delays the users, you can decrease the wsquota parameter of the users using navigator (e.g. by 10%). Of course you need to restart the sessions after that.

Wim

[rison so_1]

Thanks all for your help.

[rison so_1]

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[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

I assume you did an autogen and did a diff to see what VMS proposes as changes to the parameters ?

Wim

[rison so_1]

Yes, I did the change according to Autogen report.

[Robert Gezelter]

Rison So,

Please take note of the comment that Volker made about the images being installed SHARED.

The INSTALL LIST command will produce a list of all installed images. If the image being used by a large number of your processes is not installed, you will be using large amounts of memory to hold identical, read-only pages.

Thus, using INSTALL to install shareable images, you may be able to reduce the amount of memory used by several orders of magnitude (factor of 1,000 to 10,1000).

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com