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From: iglesias@UCI.EDU (Mike Iglesias)
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Subject: Re: VMS 4.2 wasted memory
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 10:05:08 EST
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You might try setting PFRATL and PFRATH to something other than the
defaults.  Setting PFRATL causes VMS to start swiping pages away
from jobs that have a low page rate.  We had horrible response on
our 4mb 780 until we changed PFRATL (and PFRATH), because jobs
would expand up to WSQUOTA and stay there.  Now they fluctuate
up to WSQUOTA.  See the explaination in the VMS guide to performance.

Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine