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From: nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.ARPA
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Subject: Keeping AUTOGEN's hands off page/swap file sizes
Message-ID: <870618121613.02e@lbl.arpa>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 15:16:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 15:16:08 1987
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>I recently put more memory on a vax 750 and when I
>used AUTOGEN to modify the system paramaters I discovered
>a very painful "feature".  It turns out that AUTOGEN
>decided that I needed larger paging and swapping files
>so it went ahead and created them.  When the system
>rebooted ("tried to reboot" that is) it choked saying
>something to the effect that the paging and swapping files
>were too fragmented to continue (boom). Wonderful...
>So I decided to do a stand alone backup and reorganize
>the disk.  (Boom)  It turns out that it too needs these
>files.
     
This is simple to fix.  Simply add the following lines
to your MODPARAMS.DAT file:

	PAGEFILE=0
	SWAPFILE=0

and AUTOGEN will not re-size your page and swap files
for you (when you least expect it).

= Frank J. Nagy
= Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls
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