VAX resources for 7.10F

[Chris.Sharman@ccagroup.co.uk]

>>BTW, we are impressed with Power2000 - well worth a close look if you
>>haven't already sorted yourselves out.

We availed ourselves of the free offer, and got quite a good comprehensive
report: reassuringly telling us pretty much what we'd already assessed for
ourselves, so we didn't feel the need to buy the full service.
I'd recommend people to look at it though.

>We're primarily using 6.20e.  When we first brought up a handfull (4) of
>7.10f3 users (OVMS 7.1 Alpha) on a newly developed system, there were no
>problems.  We eventually brought up another 30-40 users on the same system,

We experienced slight increases in resource usage, but nothing much. At the
same time, we upgraded DECforms, and *that* doubled its memory usage, which was
painful, and may have masked the Powerhouse increase.

>"I increased fillm=800 and astlm=500.  I don't know if that is overkill,
>but it seems to have worked."

The sysgen parameter CHANNELCNT (number of channels) defaults to 256. Every
file requires a channel, so there's no point making fillm > channelcnt
(whatever channelcnt is on your system). I think both channelcnt & fillm use
memory. I don't think astlm costs anything, it just permits use of resources.
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Chris Sharman			Chris.Sharman@CCAgroup.co.uk
CCA Stationery Ltd, Eastway, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9WS.