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Subject: Re: System Tuning
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 18:31:22 EST
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> I *LOVE* to tune my system. As a result, the amount of pages allocated
> by VMS are usually about 13-15 percent of the physical memory. Every
> time I load in new system software (like from V3.7 to V4.0) the DEC
> upgrade usually sets parameters to make the system use about 25 percent

I use AUTOGEN as recommended and have had fairly good results.  It tuned
VMS to use about 12% of physical memory.  I have a 14 Mb 785 with a heavy
interactive and moderate batch load.  The things I've needed to do are
bump up the balance set count when I found my system swapping with 4000
free pages, and bump up VIRTUALPAGECNT for some of our applications.

Other than that I (and my users) have been quite happy with AUTOGEN.

	/Kevin Carosso             engvax!kvc @ CIT-VAX.ARPA
	 Hughes Aircraft Co.