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From: ejd@GOANNA.CS.RMIT.OZ.AU
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Subject: Re: sysmon alloc option
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Date: 30 May 90 09:17:13 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

I see that sort of a lot on our Encore here. You might try using sysparam to
increase the working set scan rate from 2 second (the default) to 1 second. 
This helped here for a time.
    > 
    > Also, when invoking sysmon and looking at the 'vm' subsystem, often the
    > VMused fiead has a negative value.

I've seen that bug also. It isn't fixed in Umax 4.3.


You version of Umax is quite out of date. Upgrading to 
Umax 4.3 , or at least  a newer version of Umax 4.2 would be a good idea.


ejd