[Info-vax] 8.4 and DECwindows CDE login box not coming up

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <cni53c-m9b.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> On 2015-05-21, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> >
> > On a whim, I increased the number of global sections, and the loop now 
> > lasts longer before it stops.
> 
> Have you tried increasing GBLPAGES as well?
> 
> I'll suggest adding 50,000 to GBLPAGES.  Yes that's a figure plucked
> from the air, but I'm deliberately erring on the generous side.  There
> was a known problem with that parameter in earlier versions of VMS where
> DECwindows would see a shortage, and try to remedy it by adding an entry
> to MODPARAMS.DAT (or maybe one of the INCLUDEd Autogen files - I forget
> the precise details), but fail to do so correctly.

Parameter Name            Current    Default    Minimum    Maximum Unit  Dynamic
--------------            -------    -------    -------    ------- ----  -------
GBLPAGES                  4800000      65536      10240         -1 Pagelets    D