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From: CHRIS@YMIR.BITNET (Chris Yoder)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Problems With VMS 4.6/.7 Relative To LAT Printers...
Message-ID: <8805160337.AA08276@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 88 18:01:00 GMT
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     Regarding Paul Clayton's problems with the print queues and VMS 4.6/4.7. I
had many of the same problems with queues getting stuck and staying stuck, of
SYMBIONT_XXXX processes hanging around in RWAST states essentially forever
(thus keeping those printers permanently allocated), and general havoc with the
queues.  The solution to this problem turned out to be increasing the sysgen
parameter MAXBUF to over 5000.  Since doing so (and then rebooting...), I
haven't experienced any problems with my queues.  Several other sites have also
used this solution with success.

     I suppose that I should have posted this earlier, but I heard it through
the grapevine and naturally assumed that I had just missed it on Info-Vax.  (We
BITNETers seem to never get any of our postings back and miss about 1/4 of the
messages...)

-- Chris Yoder
     Harvey Mudd College        Bitnet ----- Chris@Ymir.Bitnet
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