Re: Maximum wsmax: can it be increased ?

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From: Dan Wing
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:18

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>Under VMS 5.5-2 the maximum value for wsmax is 400000 pages.
[...]
>but if a process opens that file (or all the files),
>he can't have more than 400000 pages im memory.

There is a bug (or *was* a bug) in the swapper that it couldn't swap in a
process that had more than (something close to) 65,535 pages.  You may want
to ensure this bug is fixed in V5.5-2, or make the process non-swappable.

-Dan Wing, dwing@uh01.colorado.edu or wing_d@ucolmcc.bitnet (DGW11)
 Systems Administrator, University Hospital, Denver

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From: Dan Wing <DWING@UH01.Colorado.EDU>
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Subject: Re: Maximum wsmax: can it be increased ?
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