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From: klb@philabs.Philips.Com (Ken Bourque)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: THE DUMP File     -- Uses and abuses
Message-ID: <3103@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: 4 Jan 88 20:55:50 GMT
References: <8712250121.AA26559@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: klb@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Ken Bourque)
Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY
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Frank Nagy's remarks are correct - if there is no dump file VMS will put the
dump in the page file, but will not preserve it during the next boot unless
SAVEDUMP is nonzero.  If you do this, you must be sure to run SDA in SYSTARTUP
and COPY the dump into another file.  If the page file runs low on space the
pages containing the dump will be released and it will be lost.  I use this
method as SOP and it works fine, although SDA will complain about "No valid
dump" in the page file until one actually gets put there.  It's all spelled out
in Chapter 2 of the SDA manual and in Chapter 3 of the System Manager's manual.



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Ken Bourque    klb@philabs.philips.com    ...!{uunet,ihnp4,decvax}!philabs!klb