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From: dcourte@eve.wright.edu (Dale Courte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: sysmon alloc option
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Date: 23 May 90 16:30:13 GMT
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I have been having experiencing what appears to be a memory shortage
problem on our Multimax 320, running Umax 4.2 (3.3.1). When there is a
heavy load on the system, attempts to invoke processes often result in a
message of 'killed', 'not enough core', or 'out of stack space'. In
attempting to find a way around this problem, I discovered that if I run
'sysmon -n alloc', I am told that the system virtual space totals 50Mb.
Now, I have 32Mb of real memory, and two paging partitions of 64Mb each.
Am I missing something, or should the system not have considerably more
virtual space?

Also, when invoking sysmon and looking at the 'vm' subsystem, often the
VMused fiead has a negative value.

I am confused. Can anyone help? The Encore Administrator's Guide seems
to provide no help, unless I can't find the right page. I'll never
understand why the System Administrator's guide was published with no
index.

-Dale Courte
 Wright State University
 CSNET: dcourte@eve.wright.edu