[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

[Neil Rieck]

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>
>    Tuning is the gentle art of determining at what level you get enough
>    paging or swapping of idle processes so free up RAM for active
>    processes without causing excessive paging or swapping of active
>    processes.  In all cases I've dealt with, one never wants active
>    processes to swap, but a very small page fault rate because of the
>    affects of the tuning parameters on the active processes is much better
>    than a large page fault rate because of idle processes consuming RAM.
>
>    And of course, "buy more memory" avoids all of this.

I couldn't put it any better. Too bad its so wordy because it would
make a great tattoo.

p.s. some of the jocks in my high school wore tattoos of the Chevy V8
firing order (IIRC, 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2)

NSR