[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

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In article <e7efea81-197a-4bc6-bd2a-3577ad513a52 at j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> writes:
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>>
>> =A0 =A0Tuning is the gentle art of determining at what level you get enou=
>gh
>> =A0 =A0paging or swapping of idle processes so free up RAM for active
>> =A0 =A0processes without causing excessive paging or swapping of active
>> =A0 =A0processes. =A0In all cases I've dealt with, one never wants active
>> =A0 =A0processes to swap, but a very small page fault rate because of the
>> =A0 =A0affects of the tuning parameters on the active processes is much b=
>etter
>> =A0 =A0than a large page fault rate because of idle processes consuming R=
>AM.
>>
>> =A0 =A0And 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)

I preferred 1-5-4-2-6-3-7-8 ;)

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