SYSUAF quota not changed after upgrade from 7.3-2 Alpha to 8.3 Alpha

[Jan van den Boogaard]

Hi vms folks,

I did a test upgrade from 7.3-2 to 8.3 on my test Alpha, and noticed that the SYSUAF quota for the SYSTEM and DEFAULT accounts are not changed to the values that they have on a newly installed V8.3 system, but instead keep the values they had under 7.3-2.

There is however a new SYSUAF.TEMPLATE with timestamp 29-JUN-2006 18:21:48.42.

E.g. SYSTEM PFLQUOTA stays 100000, but is 700000 on new 8.3 system. DEFAULT account BYTLM 64000 versus 128000, PGFLQUOTA 50000 versus 256000.

Would it make sense to update the SYSUAF quota to the default 8.3 values ?
I could find anything about this in the manuals...

[Dean McGorrill]

whats your test system? probably would hurt to bump them up.

[Hoff · Accepted solution]

Do change the quota values upwards, to at least the minimums. Consider selecting yet higher values, depending on the configuration and the particular application requirements.

[Jan van den Boogaard]

Dean,
the test system is a ES45 model 2B with 8 GB memory and 4 CPU's. Porduction systems the same.

[Ian Miller.]

It is certainly worth reviewing the quotas.

The following DCL is useful for this
http://dcl.openvms.org/stories.php?story=05/07/28/2894075

[Carson Hovey]

I suspect one reason that SYSUAF is not automatically changed during upgrade is that you might have other cluster members which are running a different version of OpenVMS.

Also, remember that the sysgen PQL_M* parameters will override sysuaf settings so you may already be getting the larger quotas.

You can use f$getjpi() to see what your process really got and compare that to the values in sysuaf (and sysgen) to see if you really need to change anything.

[Dean McGorrill]

that was supposed be "wouldn't hurt to bump them up". nice system there! Dean

[Jan van den Boogaard]

Thank you replyiers,

"PQL_M* parameters will override sysuaf settings" : yes, thats true, but for clarity reasons I would like to modify the quota to the new values with a dcl script.

[Jan van den Boogaard]

Update commands:

mcr authorize modify system /astlm=300 /bytlm=256000 /enqlm=4000 /fillm=128 /pgflquota=700000 /tqelm=100 /wsdef=4096 /wsquota=8192

mcr authorize modify default /astlm=300 /bytlm=128000 /enqlm=4000 /fillm=128 /pgflquota=256000 /tqelm=100 /wsdef=4096 /wsquota=8192

After these commands, it will be clear for the production system managers what the quota will be for the users SYSTEM and the users created from DEFAULT.

[Jan van den Boogaard]

Topic closed. Thanx all.