[Info-vax] V9.2-1 Page file size

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-02-24, Chris Townley <news at cct-net.co.uk> wrote:
> Just upgraded a VM from 9.2-1 to 9.2-2 which seemed to have worked well.
>
> Bearing in mind this us just a hobbyist system, when I created the VM I 
> gave it 8GB memory, and an 8Gb system disk
>
> That was fine, and it created a 2Mb pagefile, not expecting it to be used.
>
> The autogen run at the end of the upgrade obviously though this was 
> rubbish, so tried to create an 8Gb pagefile on the system disk. Clearly 
> it couldn't, so it created one of over 4Gb - leaving me with 120Mb free.
>

That was a stupid thing for autogen to do.

There should be some inbuilt free space limit so that autogen never leaves
the free space on the disk below something like 10%. That way, you can
continue with the upgrade/installation without trashing the system disk
by filling it up, and hence you get the opportunity to fix that on a reboot.

The other thing I don't like about this is that autogen should run initially
in test mode during the installation/upgrade, and then only commit the
changes after you are happy with them. You know, just like we are all taught
to do when adjusting autogen parameters manually. :-)

> It also wanted an 8Gb dumpfile.
>

That should have been optional. Were you asked if you wanted a dumpfile ?
If not, that's probably something else that should be added.

So, does anyone agree or disagree with the above suggestions ?

Simon.

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