Re: Understanding Peak virtual size VS UAF pgflquota+WSEXTENT

From: Syltrem (syltremzulu_at_videotron.ca)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:36:04 -0400

Yes, disk space is cheap, but not as cheap as we can afford here...

I have a VAX system clustered with 2 Alpha, and I don't have a lot of disk
space on the VAX (locally I mean) where my pagefile is.
If I keep the pgflquo higher than it needs to be, people on the VAX who
enter TPU with a very big file end up clogging my VAX pagefile and the
system almost hangs. Developpers are using the VAX.
After it happened twice I started to tweak pgflquota so that cannot happen
again.
I share SYSUAF between the VAX and the Alphas.

It's not always as easy as it seems

Since I cannot figure how many pages I actually need, I'll go by trial an
error then.

Thanks to all 

-- 
Syltrem
OpenVMS 7.3-1 + Oracle 8.1.7.4
http://pages.infinit.net/syltrem (OpenVMS related web site, en français)
---zulu is not in my email address---
"Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@MMaz.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:40C8795A.6010306@MMaz.com...
> >
> >
> I don't understand, disk storage is cheap, memory is almost as cheap,
> why is there so much nit-picking on what amounts to a very little
> overall difference in virtual address space?  If you were debating the
> difference between a VA of 50MB and 500MB, then then I could understand
> the concern, but 25000 pages?  on a VAX, that is only 6MB!
>
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> Barry
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