[Info-vax] page, swap and dump files; AUTOGEN, MODPARAMS.DAT, TESTFILES

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <j1gise$876$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
(Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes: 

> I have PAGEFILE1_SIZE=0 in MODPARAMS.DAT yet AUTOGEN with TESTFILES as 
> the end phase suggests resizing it.  If I specify SAVPARAMS rather than 
> TESTFILES, will it leave it alone?  (I don't want to try this out since 
> I don't want to create any unnecessary files; also, I would expect the 
> numbers which come out of TESTFILES to be the same as those that come 
> out of SETPARAMS, just with nothing happening in the former case.)

The dump file was too small or non-existent.  So, it wanted to extend 
the page file enough to handle the dump.  OK.  It then wants to make the 
secondary page file the same size as the primary, ditto for the swap 
file.

If I run @SYS$UPDATE:SWAPFILES.COM and create a dump file of the 
expected size, the next run of AUTOGEN tells me to create a somewhat 
larger dump file.  If I then extend it with @SYS$UPDATE:SWAPFILES.COM, 
the NEXT run of AUTOGEN wants it to be even bigger.

However, even with a big dump file in place, it still wants to make the 
page file big enough to handle the dump, even though, as far as I can 
tell, all I need is at most a quite small page file.

What is going on?