Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 1997 17:02:49 -0800 (PST) | From | "James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: swap space: an idea. Please comment. |
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On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Riccardo Facchetti wrote:
> Hello, > I was talking this morning at 2 a.m. with a friend in a pub (okay okay > ... may be my mind was not so ... how to say it ... clear :) > > We was talking about VAX and VMS. At some point he said something like > that VMS is a strong OS. That never crash and never fails in giving > resources to processes that ask for them.
Riccardo, Oh-Yes VMS can crash. But it is really well known for just slowing to a -stop- because some system-mangler hasn't performed -any- system tuning.
Usually this happens when the Pagefile gets full or if in my case I get 2-3 processes trying to utilize the same -very slow- device, and I get tired of waiting and stop one of the processes attached to that -very slow- device. Then all hell breaks down.
> I don't know VMS (I just have an idea about its shell and I definitely > don't like it) but an idea enlightened me ... may be some sort of ethilic
Too be perverse I do like the VMS shell, & by the way there is under 6.1 and above a Posix shell. If again the system-mangler has allowed its use as a shell.
> alchool burning on top of my beer glass ... bah :)) > But now, that I am (at least I think) lucid, I still think this may be an > interesting idea. ... snip some nice ideas ...
Hth, JimL _________________________________________ | James W. Laferriere | Network Engineer | | babydr@nwrain.net | System Techniques | | 25416 - 22nd S. | Kent, WA 98032 | | Give me VMS -or- Give me Linux | | but only on AXP | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My libraries & programs status ( most are here now )
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