[Info-vax] VPM_SERVER on VAX disappears

[David Froble]

Christoph Gartmann wrote:
> In article <4f7b4896$0$63193$815e3792 at news.qwest.net>, George Cornelius <cornelius at eisner.decus.org> writes:
> 
>> Look for a MONITOR_SERVER process as well.  That seems
>> to be what a DECnet based server renames itself to.
>> On the system I checked (VAX/VMS 7.1) the two can
>> coexist, but it's another thing to look for.
> 
> There is no such process, either.
> 
>> You do have IP running, correct?  What IP stack?
> 
> Multinet V5.3. No problem so far with that one.
> 
>> I see that VPM_SERVER on my UCX based system creates
>> a BGAnnnn device.  Don't know what Multinet/TGV
>> uses for its network devices, but if you're using
>> it and there's a UCX / TCPIP Services compatibility
>> mode it should probably be turned on.
> 
> Here I have BGx devices, where x is a number.
> 
>> More things to try:
>>
>> o Turn on accounting and use something like this
>>   to determine completion code / execution stats:
>>
>>    $ account/full/since=today/id=<process_id>
> 
> Ok, here I got nothing but I realized that I had to turn accounting on for
> detached processes (SET ACCOUNTING/ENABLE=DETACHED). Then I saw the process
> exiting with %SYSTEM-F-EXQUOTA. So I continued to add all kinds of parameters
> to the RUN/DETACHED command and found that /PAGE_FILE cured the problem.
> After all, I had to modify system parameters PQL_MPGFLQUOTA and PQL_DPGFLQUOTA.
> They are now at 25000 and things work as expected without a /PAGE_FILE
> qualifier in the VPM$STARTUP.COM procedure.
> 
> Regards,
>    Christoph Gartmann
> 

Did you ever fix something so long ago that you totally forgot about it?

The PQL set of parameters on VAX was so woefully inadequate to run any but the simplest 
detached processes that I set up MODPARAMS.DAT to change many of them.  I then was in the 
habit of moving this to any new system I was setting up.  As some like to say, run AUTOGEN 
and Bob's your uncle.

So I didn't even think to ask about PQL parameters when you posed your question.  Talk 
about "forgetting more than a newbee will ever know".  I'm beginning to form an intense 
dislike for senility.