[Info-vax] System parameters (and a marketing suggestion), was: Re: What Will Drive More OpenVMS Adoption?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/6/2021 1:29 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-12-03, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/3/2021 1:55 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> I think VSI have done some work with parameter defaults so at least
>>> some of them will not be an issue on x86-64 VMS.
>>>
>>> Is there any option in VMS where, if a system/process goes past some
>>> percentage (say 80% to 90%) of any system parameter designed to limit
>>> use of a resource, VMS will issue an OPCOM warning about that system
>>> parameter (and maybe log it elsewhere as well) ? If not, would this
>>> be a good option to add to VMS ?
>>
>> I think VSI should get rid of >95% of SYSGEN and SYSUAF limits.
>>
>> They made sense with a 256 KB VAX but not so much on a 256 GB x86-64.
> 
> Agreed, but it would be nice if they would retain an overall ability
> to stop a single runaway process from gobbling up all the resources
> without at the same time having to micromanage resources as needed to
> be done on the resource limited systems of old.

Sure. But if we have a MAXCPU, a MAXMEMORY and a MAXOPENFILES
then how much more do we need.

Arne