AUTOGEN and swap and page file (names)

From: Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply (helbig_at_astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 22:04:14 +0000 (UTC)

I know that I can tell AUTOGEN not to mess with page files, and in my
case, since the values for the sizes are either hard-coded or set to a
minimum value which is more than large enough, it doesn't, no matter
what arguments I execute it with. Rather, I'm trying to understand what
is going on.

Due to reasons I can no longer figure out, AUTOGEN has the names of two
page files reversed.

In MODPARAMS.DAT, I specify PAGEFILE1_NAME, PAGEFILE2_NAME,
SWAPFILE1_NAME and SWAPFILE2_NAME. I have two page and two swap files,
with the primary ones being on the system disk. The primary files are
"1", the others are "2". I have run AUTOGEN several times, more than
enough to "clean things out", but have not rebooted several times if
that is needed to "clean things out".

AUTOGEN complains that there are duplicate values for both pagefile
names and one of the swap file names. In the case of the pagefile
names, they are reversed, as indicated (as seen in AGEN$PARAMS.REPORT)
but they are not reversed in the case of the swapfile names. It says
that the values in MODPARAMS.DAT will override those in PARAMS.DAT.
However, they don't----the wrong name is used in the calculation, and
even after a reboot things don't change. (In the case of the swapfile
names, in one case there is a ";" at the end, in the other there isn't.
Perhaps that is why it is complaining about duplicate names (though,
strangely, it only does so for one, not for both) even though the names
appear to be correct.)

I've even---shudder---tried editing PARAMS.DAT and AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT,
but even that doesn't seem to work!

Is there any way I can get AUTOGEN to make a completely fresh start with
respect to the pagefile and swapfile names?

Since the pagefile and swapfile names are not system parameters in the
narrow sense, it is difficult to see what a running system really thinks
they are.

Where does AUTOGEN get its information as to what the pagefile and
swapfile names are on the running system? If MODPARAMS.DAT specifies
the correct values, and (after editing) PARAMS.DAT and AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT
do so as well, why is it still picking up the "wrong" value?

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