Re: Excessive IO on my emulated vax

In article <4524A33A.1F194716@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Villy Madsen wrote:
%WBM-I-WBMINFO Write Bitmap has successfully completed initialization.

I am running on a real vax , and in the process of upgrading to 7.3 just
to please some pointy haired ZKO boss who decided 7.2 wouldn't work with
Alpha 8.3 ....

And I am now also seeing that WMB message during the intervening boot
(phase 2) Stayed a long time before it appeared.

Perhaps this is a one time thing on a real vax. It wasn't there in 7.2,
or I didn't notice.

WBM stuff is new in 7.3; it's to support shadow mini-copies for faster
rejoin of the shadow set member after a crash or backup.

(I think this is separate from the HBMM (Host-based mini-merges) stuff
since that came to Alpha in 7.3-2 via an additional kit, and is
integrated in 8.2. I think that's Alpha and I64 only for HBMM support.)

I'm sure that if I'm wrong anywhere, Rob Brooks or someone else will set
me straight. :-)

Ah, I found the 7.3 new features list:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/os/v73features.html

-Dan
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