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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-12-06, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 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.
>

Not as many as we currently have. :-)

Simon.

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