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3575.1 | Add 10 meg | HANNAH::BAY | Jim CNF ENTP PPASEL DECterm | Fri Nov 02 1990 12:15 | 13 |
| Six Megabytes? I hope thats a typo. If not, then the workstation is
SERIOUSLY underpowered to run DECwindows. DECwindows needs a lot of
memory and DECterm does too (for things like maintaining scroll
buffers). Do a SHOW MEMORY before you pause and after, and you will
probably see that you have depleted your pagefile when you enabled the
pause screen. In order to run in this configuration you will need a
LARGE pagefile, large virtual page count, and you will run very slowly
and thrash to disk a lot.
I advise more memory.
Jim
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3575.2 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Fri Nov 02 1990 12:22 | 5 |
| re: .1 Unless we suddenly changed policy, this is a supported
configuration. How would you feel if sold a car and then told - "ha!
you need to buy WHEELS before you can move...".
In other words, there should be an answer that doesn't involve $$$
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3575.3 | I'm looking into this | HANNAH::BAY | Jim CNF ENTP PPASEL DECterm | Wed Nov 07 1990 14:41 | 11 |
| The trade-off is speed. DECterm requires LOTS of virtual memory (over
7000 pages just to start the controller in V3). As long as there is
virtual memory, it will run. But there will obviously be a severe
paging problem.
You may be correct that this is supposed to be a supported
configuration. I will be investigating it, because if it IS, it should
not be. Perhaps it was possible at one time, but not anymore.
Jim
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3575.4 | | LESLIE::LESLIE | Andy Leslie | Wed Nov 07 1990 15:53 | 5 |
| Then the SPD had better change. As I recall, it stated 4mb for a
standalone system and 6mb for a clustered ws.
/andy/
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3575.5 | 7000 pages for DECterm controller ? says who | HANNAH::OSMAN | see HANNAH::IGLOO$:[OSMAN]ERIC.VT240 | Thu Nov 15 1990 15:17 | 9 |
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The 7000 pages is what SHOW PROC/CONTINUOUS shows on vms for the DECterm
controller.
Is that 7000 private pages, or does that include n000 pages for xlib and
xtlib, and those n000 pages are perhaps SHARED with all other DECwindows
applications ?
/Eric
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