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

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <j1gk5h$9m0$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de
(Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes: 

> 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.

Even if I create no new files between runs, the calculated size of the 
dumpfile increases from run to run of AUTOGEN.