Re: Satellite nodes and pagefiles

JF Mezei wrote:
joseph.huber@xxxxxx wrote:

No, You should enter the necessary commands (mount and sysgen
install)
in SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSEXE]SATELLITE_PAGE.COM, it is executed earlier in
startup.
Usually cluster_config creates this file, if You answer the question
if the
satellite uses a local disk for paging.



Yeah, BUT !

I'd *like* to maintain a single cluster-wide disk mounting procedure. Also, I want to structure as follows:


[NODE1] [NODE2]
| |
[DISK1] [DISK2]
[SYS0][SYS1] [SYS0][SYS1]

DISK2 will be an image backup of disk1. (not a shadow copy, I want it to act as a backup so if I screw up, the other disk is intact).

Normally, NODE2 boots as satellite as [SYS1] from NODE1. NODE1 boots locally as [SYS0]

But I also want NODE2 to be able to boot locally from SYS1, and NODE1 to be a satellite of NODE2 as [SYS0].

And I want to use a sysgen USERDx parameter to indicate to my DCL special cases where I do not wish to install a local pagefile (for when I do backups so that the target disk can be reinitialised). In which case, I might need a remote pagefile. (hence my question for the smallest size)



By having a small page file on the system disk, it will allow all processes created by the time systartup_vms is invoke to be mapped to a pagefile and I can then have more freedom to create the big pagefile to be used by processes such as x windows and mozilla that require hundreds of megabytes each.

Yes I understand, but all this can be done much earlier, namely in satellite_page.com, so that systartup_vms can use already the page file(s).
And if You decide not to install the big local pagefile, and the small one does not exist, use SYSGEN to create one.
Pagefiles should have identical sizes I once learned (maybe this is no longer important ?), therefore I like to get rid of the small one on the MSCP served system disk.
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