| 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 |
I have a problem (I think) with an upgrade of DECmcc BMS on a site. They were running V1.1 and I was upgrading them to V1.2 and then intalling the Bridge AM and FM. After I got BMS installed, I tried to do MANAGE/ENT/INTER=DECW from their normal network management account and recieved an error in the decterm window as follows: $ MANAGE/ENTER/INTER=DECW entity :0] wild = class = 2008787677 id=0 type=0 instance = An empty map then appeared where before there had been a map with a variety of NODE4, BRIDGE and STATION entities. My first though was that this was due to the fact that the BRIDGE AM/FM was not installed. So I proceeded to install the ELM AM. It ran smoothly until it got to the point of saying... Reading parse table file: SYS$COMMON:[MCC]MCC_FDICTIONARY.BPT After it sat at that point for about 3/4 hr I began to get suspicious that something was wrong. I began to monitor the process and noticed the image MCC_DAP_MAIN.EXE running in what appeared to be an infinite loop. In the half hour that I was monitoring it it did zero I/O operations and the virtual address display under SHOW PROCESS showed the PC going in a loop between about 3 different addresses. The CPU was 95% consumed. So after about 1 1/2 hours (since the "Reading parse table" message had come up), I aborted the procedure with CTRL/Y. The system that all of this was running on was a VAXstation 3100 model 30 with 24mb of memory. Is this a problem or am I just not patient enough? Do you have any suggestions about where to go from here?
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| 3762.1 | SLINK::CHILDS | Ed Childs | Thu Sep 17 1992 15:44 | 12 | |
| Is this a problem or am I just not patient enough?
Both. :-)
The parse table rebuild is an INCREDIBLY compute-bound task, it's not
an infinite loop. In our experience it can take up to two hours to
rebuild the parse tables. [I've QARed this "problem" but it doesn't
look like it will be addressed anytime soon.]
Your dictionary/parse tables may be in an inconsistent state since you
CTRL/Y-ed, so if it's possible, I'd recommend re-installing BMS and
then the ELM stuff after that.
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