Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

1574.0. "Help for hung workstation?" by REORG::ROGOFF (Zen Software Documentation) Fri Oct 13 1989 18:08

One of several VAXstation 2000's in my MI cluster (6MB, VMS V5.2,
DECwindows V1.0) is getting hung in DECwindows about once a day.  I
understand that 02DB821C is a known problem but why does it only hit
one system? Is there anything I can do to get rid of it?

Here's a session manager log file and other possibly useful data:
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%SET-I-NEWLIMS, new working set:  Limit = 200  Quota = 200  Extent = 3100
Session Message: Started DECterm controller 

Session Error: %NONAME-F-NOMSG, Message number 02DB821C

%NONAME-F-NOMSG, Message number 02DB821C
  FAATZ        logged out at 13-OCT-1989 16:16:44.12
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SYSMAN> do sho mem
%SYSMAN-I-OUTPUT, command execution on node KRIKOS
              System Memory Resources on 13-OCT-1989 16:13:17.60

Physical Memory Usage (pages):     Total        Free      In Use    Modified
  Main Memory (6.00Mb)             12288        1668       10215         405

Slot Usage (slots):                Total        Free    Resident     Swapped
  Process Entry Slots                 28           9          18           1
  Balance Set Slots                   25           9          16           0

Fixed-Size Pool Areas (packets):   Total        Free      In Use        Size
  Small Packet (SRP) List            640          34         606          96
  I/O Request Packet (IRP) List      616          12         604         176
  Large Packet (LRP) List             36          23          13        1648

Dynamic Memory Usage (bytes):      Total        Free      In Use     Largest
  Nonpaged Dynamic Memory         545280       23680      521600       19040
  Paged Dynamic Memory            499712      347344      152368      346320

Paging File Usage (pages):                      Free  Reservable       Total
  DISK$KRIKOS_32522:[SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS;1     19872       19872       19992
  DISK$KRIKOS_32522:[SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS;1     37863       12868       49992

Of the physical pages in use, 3370 pages are permanently allocated to VMS.
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SYSMAN> do sho sys
%SYSMAN-I-OUTPUT, command execution on node KRIKOS
VAX/VMS V5.2  on node KRIKOS  13-OCT-1989 16:13:53.94   Uptime  0 09:13:54
  Pid    Process Name    State  Pri      I/O       CPU       Page flts Ph.Mem
33E00021 SWAPPER         HIB     16        0   0 00:00:19.44         0      0
33E00043 SYSTEM_1        CUR      7       20   0 00:00:00.88       274    275  S
33E00027 ERRFMT          HIB      8      318   0 00:00:05.29        81    121
33E00028 CACHE_SERVER    HIBO    16       --  swapped  out  --             97
33E00029 CLUSTER_SERVER  HIB     10      162   0 00:00:22.31       134    227
33E0002A OPCOM           HIB      7      116   0 00:00:10.63       261    123
33E0002B AUDIT_SERVER    HIB     10       54   0 00:00:04.10      1348    212
33E0002C JOB_CONTROL     HIB     10      199   0 00:00:03.35       199    381
33E0002D CONFIGURE       HIB      8       15   0 00:00:00.34       111    157
33E0002E SMISERVER       COM      7      313   0 00:00:07.10       416    512
33E0002F NETACP          HIB     10       33   0 00:11:14.06     69914    396
33E00030 REMACP          HIB      8       11   0 00:00:00.28        64     38
33E00033 DECW$SERVER_0   HIB      7     3961   0 00:10:03.60      2151   1363
33E00034 FAATZ           LEF      4      517   0 00:02:39.90      5054    926
33E00036 DECW$WM_1       LEF      7       60   0 00:00:26.45      1140    773
33E00037 DECW$TE_1       LEF      5    42513   0 00:15:22.10      2598   1223
33E00038 Linda's Hubby   HIB      7    80015   0 00:02:19.26     13156    347
33E00039 FAATZ_TWA3      HIB      7    10084   0 00:00:38.00     12754    333
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UAF> sho faatz

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    Observation: a lot of you values look like they are predicated by an
    old MODPARAMS.DAT. There is no way you need 19k blocks of swapfile on a
    6mb system. In fact I wouldn't bother at all.
    
    Delete the vast majority of stuff in the MODPARAMS.DAT, then autogen.
    
    - Andy ��� Leslie
      VMS CSSE Newbury