[Info-vax] Pagefile is not showing on 8.2 running on Alpha

[AEF]

On Aug 26, 12:41 am, Jeremy Begg <jeremy.removet... at vsm.com.au> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> CY wrote:
> > On Aug 25, 3:56 pm, Joseph Huber <joseph.hu... at NOSPAM.web.de> wrote:
>
> >>CY wrote:
>
> > ... and so on...
>
> >>>Just a bug in sho mem, or my eyes getting weeker...
>
> >>No , it is not SHOW MEM failing, there is no pagefile installed.
> >>Since   DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS the swapfile is on a
> >>different disk than DSA0:[SYS0.SYSEXE], I suppose the pagefile is on a
> >>different disk, and needs to be installed explicitly at startup:
> >>put the mount and install commands for DSA0: in either
> >> sys$system:SYPAGSWPFILES.COM
> >>or sys$system:satellite_page.com
>
> >>--
> >>Joseph Huber,http://www.huber-joseph.de
>
> > But DISK$ALPHASYS: is DSA0: or I dont understand what you mean...
>
> > Its a bit tricky as the DSA didnt complete (system volumes dont want
> > to) when somenone tripped on a cable this summer.
>
> > Its mounted by hand afterwards, might it be a clue to why its not
> > showing, as its there.
>
> That sounds very broken, or you've not quite understood how your system disk
> is set up.  If VMS is configured to use a system disk shadow set it will
> always be mounted as a shadow set.  (It's possible that not all physical
> drives will join the shadow set, but this wouldn't prevet VMS finding your
> pagefile.)
>
> What do you see when you try
>
>      $ show log/full sys$sysdevice
>      $ show log/full disk$alphasys
>      $ show dev dsa0
>      $ mcr sysman
>      SYSMAN> PARAM USE CURRENT
>      SYSMAN> PARAM SHOW SHADOWING
>      SYSMAN> PARAM SHOW SHADOW_SYS_DISK
>      SYSMAN> PARAM SHOW SHADOW_SYS_UNIT
>      SYSMAN> EXIT
>      $
>
> These will identify which volume you're actually booting from, and if your
> system disk is actually DSA0.

Do you mean which _member_ it boots from? It will not tell you that.
It tells you what the shadow set unit number will be. You can get this
from SYS$SYSDEVICE. Unless things have changed in newer versions (post-
V6.2) of VMS i.e. Isn't the boot device set from the console at the
>>> ? I think there may be some other way, but not from
SHADOW_SYS_UNIT.

Aef

>
> > we have the mount dsa in systartup_vms.com and all but the dsa0 will
> > shadow up, and (as documented I think) dsa0 wont.
>
> > will check SYPAGSWPFILES.COM tomorrow, but cant se it being called
> > from recollection in systartup.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Jeremy Begg