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Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

772.0. "Trouble with the EFT ICONIC MAP PM" by MAYDAY::ANDRADE (The sentinel (.)(.)) Wed Mar 06 1991 12:25

    MCCBMS011 kit from 5-Feb, is giving me trouble. Specially the 
    DECwindows ICONIC MAP PM.
    
    1-	When I add a line, nothing shows. Looking at the MAP files
        in my default dir, I find that nonetheless it is there.
    
    2-  To fix above, I tried to change the windowBackground in the 
    	sys$login:mcc_resource file. But could not find it. Is this 
        some kind of initial parameters and configuration file.
    
    3-	When I tried to add a circuit (granted that it already existed)
        but that is no excuse for DECmcc to crash, and leave the system
        hung, with lots of processes in RWMPB state. And the system 
    	PAGEFILE with zero free blocks.
    
    
    Smaller grips:
    
    4-	If I leave the map window, when I come back. A different space
    	is displayed. The same general stuff, but with stuff from the
    	top or left sides out of view.
    
    5-	It is slow..Slow..SLOW
    
    6-	Does some SHOW ENROLLED modules command exist. It'd make thinks
    	simpler, when someone wants to check up on it.
    
    
    Gil
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772.1Please check your page file quotasTOOK::GUERTINI want my MCCWed Mar 06 1991 14:3924
    re:.0
    
    Item 3-
    
    With respect to causing your system to hang.  Please check your process
    page file quota either SHOW PROCESS/QUOTA and look at the "Paging file
    quota", or run authorize and look at the pgflquo parameter.  I believe
    we now recommend this be 30,000 or more.  Also, to run the Iconic Map,
    it is a good idea to have 50,000 or more.  (As an absolute bare minimum,
    we need 24,000 blocks to run.)
    
    More importantly, do the following:
    $ MCR SYSGEN SHOW VIRTUALPAGECNT
    
    If this number is LESS than your page file quota, VMS has a tendency to
    hang when it runs out of page file.  This is NOT an MCC bug, you can
    submit a bug report to VMS, but there is really not much we as a VMS
    application can do to prevent VMS from behaving this way.  It's probably
    considered by the VMS folks as just a case of a poorly tuned system
    running out of a needed resource.   We have several warning about checking
    your page file quota in the release notes.
    
    I hope that's all it is.  Please, let me know what you find.
    -Matt.
772.2TOOK::F_MESSINGERWed Mar 06 1991 15:5519
Gil,

Item 1,2:  Windowing applications typically do not create a user resource file
           in sys$login until you've said "Save current settings" from the
	   application customize menu.  So do this and you'll be able edit it.

           When a windowing application is installed, a resource file is placed
           in the DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS directory.  When you run the 
           application, the resource manager looks for the resource file first
           in DECW$SYSTEM_DEFAULTS and then in DECW$USER_DEFAULTS.  If it 
           finds it in both places, it merges the two.

Item 3,5    The people who wrote the server recommend that your page file be 
            at least 100,000 blocks long and that VIRTUALPAGECNT be as much.

Item 3      We can QAR this.

Fred
772.3Current stuffMAYDAY::ANDRADEThe sentinel (.)(.)Thu Mar 07 1991 04:1431
    Matt, Fred
    
    Thank you for your prompt answers. What I found is not so bad,
    acording to your recomendations. But I will increase everything,
    since it doesn't seem to be enough.
    
    Gil
    
    
    
    Current Parameters:
    
    Paging File Usage (pages):                      Free  Reservable  Total
      DISK$DECNET_TOOLS:[SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS;1     14992       14992  14992
      DISK$DECNET_TOOLS:[SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS;1     61397      -47990  89992
    
    Parameter Name             Current   Default   Minimum   Maximum Unit Dynamic
    --------------             -------   -------   -------   ------- ---- -------
    VIRTUALPAGECNT              149072      8192       512    600000 Pages
    
    
    Process Quotas:
     Account name: KZ3
     CPU limit:                      Infinite  Direct I/O limit:       100
     Buffered I/O byte count quota:     50000  Buffered I/O limit:     100
     Timer queue entry quota:             128  Open file quota:        200
     Paging file quota:                 38657  Subprocess quota:        10
     Default page fault cluster:           64  AST quota:              298
     Enqueue quota:                       512  Shared file limit:        0
     Max detached processes:                0  Max active jobs:          0