Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU!leichter From: leichter@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU ("Jerry Leichter") Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: re: Error INSVIRMEM Message-ID: <8709191254.AA03963@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 10:42:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8709191254.AA03963 Posted: Fri Sep 18 10:42:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 15:27:53 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "Jerry Leichter" Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 34 After defining many logicals (>30) in systartup.com and sylogin.com 00000100 I have the problem that the command 00000200 SHOW LOGICAL 00000300 won't work. It gives the error message: 00000400 %LIB-F-INSVIRMEM, insufficient virtual memory 00000500 I searched the system messages manual, but can't find this message 00000510 with the Facility LIB. 00000520 ... Wow, card-image mail messages. What won't the BITNET world come up with next! :-) INSVIRMEM is a pretty generic message, and can be signalled by almost any facility that runs out of memory. It always means just what it says. 30, 40, even 100 system logicals is not "many" - any VAXStation with UIS and GKS probably has 100 just to define all the various fonts. You have a real problem somewhere. Two things I'd check: Whatever the system-wide VIRTUALPAGCNT (or whatever the parameter name is) may be, two things can restrict how much virtual memory a process can have: The UAF value of PAGFILQUO for the account the process is logged into; and the actual amount of space available in the page file. It's probably also possible to screw things up by mis-setting certain other para- meters, like WSMAX, though it would take some doing. My suggestion: Check pagefile sizes (SHO MEM command) and PAGFILQUO values (with SYSUAF). If they look reasonable, go through your MODPARAMS.DAT file to make sure nothing unexpected was slipped in there, then do an AUTOGEN. If it still doesn't work, I suggest trying to find a local guru - it's then likely to be too subtle to find over the net. -- Jerry ------