[Info-vax] FAXSR

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Dave wrote 2012-01-25 18:00:
> I appreciate that this is probably a pointless exercise since there
> are few who even remember this archaic product, however...
>
> I am running a very old product called FAXSR, and I have begun to see
> a problem where the COMPOSER process terminates with a
>
> [10:16:00.68] Disk space too low - terminating
>
> message.      I could only find one reference to this issue in a very
> old (2004) thread, which didnt really offer any solution.     I tried
> to contact the author of this old thread (Gerald Marsh, (anyone know
> him)) but of course he is "no longer at that address".
>
> Is there anyone out there who has even a passing familiarity with
> FAXSR, and who may be able to help me out with this issue?
>
> As far as I can tell, none of my disks are having any disk-space
> issues, and all disks are well below the MAXFILES limit.     From the
> old thread, there is reason to suspect the FAXSR_HISTORY file which is
> indexed and has the CBT attribute (contiguous best try).      It is
> possible (some of) the disk(s) is/are quite fragmented.   is it
> possible that this is the cause??     I dont have any defrag software
> to analyse the disks.
>
> Are there native DCL commands which will give me this info??    (maybe
> in the anal/sys or anal/disk)??

Yes, get DFU and run a REPORT on your disks. Gives you the
current fragmentation statistics (both used and unused space).

$ mc dfu report dsa100

      Disk and File Utilities for OpenVMS V3.2
%DFU-I-REPORT, Reporting on DSA100: (DSA100:)

...
... Snipped info about used disk space...
...

       ***** Free space statistics (from BITMAP.SYS) *****
  Total blocks on disk             :  142264000
  Total free blocks                :  109475467
  Percentage free (rounded)        :  76
  Total free extents               :  6618
  Largest free extent (blocks)     :  57386971 at LBN: 13745073
  Average extent size (blocks)     :  16542
  Free space fragmentation index   :  0.006  (excellent)

%DFU-I-READY, REPORT command ready
$

http://www.digiater.nl/dfu.html





> Anyway thanks in advance for any suggestions
>
> by the way, the system is Alpha DS10 running OpenVMS 8.3.
>
> Dave
>
>
> The current owner of the product is OMTOOL, however they stopped
> supporting it way back.
> (their primary response is "send us your autograph on a check-shaped
> piece of paper, and we will come around and attempt to migrate you to
> our new Windowz-based product Genifax."