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

[Henry Crun]

On 05/08/11 15:46, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> 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.
>
Because, IIRC, Autogen limits file increments to 10% of the file size, so 
reaching a really large increase would take several runs.

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