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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

673.0. "DECram good for ALL-IN-1 ?" by BAHTAT::64030::bell (At last a PC User !) Tue May 12 1992 18:23

Has anyone any experience of using DECram with ALL-IN-1. My customer 
is considering using this with VAX 4000s for ALL-IN-1 instead of an 
ESE20 currently used with 6000s. Given that DECram is good for 
read-only could the ALL-IN-1 image be held in memory and thus speed up 
activation times?

Richard Bell
 
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673.1OAFORM perhapsIOSG::DAVISMark DavisWed May 13 1992 09:5614
    
       I haven't any experience of using DECRAM but I would guess that puttng 
       the image on a DECRAM disk would not gain you much. This is because the 
       image is installed shared and it is probable that when sufficient 
       people are logged in, all the bits of the image that you want are in 
       memory already.
    
       I think OAFORM.FLB would be the best candidate for DECRAM. This file 
       cannot have global buffers so it takes quite a lot of I/Os. If you do 
       put this on a DECRAM disk then make sure that the size of the 
       default sequential multiblock count is low (for example 4). This will 
       result in more I/Os to OAFORM.FLB but less memory used by processes.
    
       				Mark