Re: AUTOGEN and swap and page file (names)
From: David J McKenzie (david_at_mckenziefamily.biz)
Date: 05/10/04
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Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:10:48 +1000
Phillip Helbig---remove CLOTHES to reply wrote:
> 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?
I always found it easier to tell autogen not to mess with these valuues by
pagefile=0
swapfile=o
dumpfile=0
and then install them myself in startup using sysgen
then the name problem goes away
can't remember the sysgen syntax but it is something like
mc sysgen
install disk:[pagefile]pagefile_anything/page
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