[Info-vax] Process memory settings

[Syltrem]

"John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> wrote in message 
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> "Syltrem" <syltremzulu at videotron.ca> wrote in message 
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>> With the new compiler 2.9 Peak virtual size goes up to 1964832 and is no 
>> longer limited to 847968, but it still fails in the end even when I 
>> haven`t used up my page file quota.
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> There is only 1GB of P0 space regardless of page file quota, pagefiles, 
> working set, day of week, phase of moon, etc.  When you hit that limit, 
> LIB$GET_VM (which is what the compiler uses to allocate memory) will 
> return an error.  You cannot put 10 pounds of er, bits in a 5 pound bag.
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> If you have a COBOL program that causes the compiler to allocate memory 
> until it dies at /OPT=LEVEL=1, then the compiler team would like to see 
> it. In the meantime, you have /NOOPT as a workaround.
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> John
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That's probably what I should do - open a case with HP.
Or I'll live with /NOOPT. Users will be happy anyway, going from a slow VAX 
to an Alpha they'll never notice.

Thanks
Syltrem