[Info-vax] VPM_SERVER on VAX disappears

[abrsvc]

On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 11:58:27 AM UTC-4, David Froble wrote:
> 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=
> 
> > 
> > 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.

Welcome to the club.  I recently found a "worksheet" that I used to check parameters for VMS systems when providing the initial performance review.  Many of the items are long since obsoleted.  Brings back both good and bad memories.
I still recall showing up at client sites with my SPM software in hand ready to do a performance study. Management was impressed when I could tell them when their employees took a break and went to lunch.  Ah, the good old days...
(Back when cut and paste REALLY meant cut and paste.)

Dan