[Info-vax] Problem with RWMPB

[Bob Koehler]

In article <4acdac39$1_1 at glkas0286.greenlnk.net>, "Ian Dean" <ian.d.dean at baesystems.com> writes:
> Hi,
>     Whilst running an image, it hangs and shows a status of RWMPB (Modified 
> page writer busy).
> 
>     Can someone explain (in simplish terms) what is causing this and what 
> actions I can take to overcome this?

   Your process needs to complete a page fault to bring a page from disk
   into RAM.  In order to do that memory management is trying to make 
   space in your process' working set by moving pages out.  This has 
   caused the system wide cache of such pages to overfill so the memory 
   manager is trying to write some out to the disk, most likely to the 
   page file, but that isn't happening.

   So most likely your page file is too small.  See if you can get in
   a "show memory/files" from some other process.