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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:STAR::VATNE
Created:Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3726
Total number of notes:19516

3445.0. "who starts decw$wm ?" by WELWEL::GRAHAM (Hopelessly Hopeful ! ) Tue Oct 09 1990 13:16

    Can anyone detail how/who the VMS window manager(decw$wm = decw$winmgr)
     is started please ? We have searched the various command files to no avail.

    We are doing a performance study and the decw$wm process is showing
    resource problems and we would like to know where it is started from
    and what are it's default quotas etc ?
    
    
    	regards,
    		dave
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3445.1some info...WIDGIT::WESTSCARY : A programmer with a screwdriver.Wed Oct 10 1990 19:2841
  Window Manager Process Characteristics

  - Started by DECW$LOGINOUT.EXE through the logical translation of
    DECW$WINMGREXE

  - Process flags
      - DETACHED
      - NO SWAP FLAG

  - Quotas/limits set at creation time (may not be modified)
      - PGFLQUOTA	5000
      - BYTLM		10000
      - WSEXTENT	4000
      - FILLM		92
      - DIOLM		100
      - BIOLM		60
      - ASTLM		100
      - WSDEFAULT	512
      - WSQUOTA		650

  - Process Name is DECW$WM_# where # is the WSA device number found in
    DECW$DISPLAY

  - May be run interactively if the Window Manager terminates for some reason

  - Image File    -> SYS$SYSTEM:DECW$WINMGR.EXE
  - Resource File -> DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS:DECW$WINMGR.DAT
  - Log File      -> File name described by the logical DECW$WINMGR_OUTPUT
		     found in the SYSTEM logical name table.  Not defined
		     by default.


  The above mentioned values are based on DECwindows V1.0 and I believe they
are still the same for DECwindows V2.0.

  Hope this helps...

					-=> Jim <=-
3445.2LESLIE::LESLIEAndy Leslie, CSSE/VMSThu Oct 11 1990 10:041
    Note that this changes rather a lot in DW v3.
3445.3DECwindows Server?RCOJDS::SHOWALTERJay ShowalterFri Oct 19 1990 08:099
I have the same question for the DECwindows Server process (DECW$SERVER_0).  
How/when does it get started?  What are its characteristics?  etc.

I have found on my system that the server is by far the highest hard faulting
process.  That leads to a real performance bottleneck!  The working set stays
at or close to 4000 pages.  Would it help if it were made larger?  How can that
be done?

Thanks
3445.4DECWIN::FISHERI like my species the way it is&quot; &quot;A narrow view...Mon Oct 22 1990 14:388
Look at SYS$MANAGER:DECW$STARTSERVER.COM.  That is what starts it. 

You can change the maximum working set by defining the logical
DECW$SERVER_WSQUOTA.  This is a reasonable thing to try.  Just realize that
you are reducing the memory available for the free list and for other process
working sets.

Burns