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- From: nreadwin@micrognosis.co.uk (Neil Readwin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: ballooning EXE size
- Message-ID: <C052tI.K10@micrognosis.co.uk>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 19:44:06 GMT
- References: <01GSUT89O7JK000J0I@XRT.UPENN.EDU> <1992Dec29.232313.8246@ll.mit.edu> <1992Dec30.230003.26308@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.230003.26308@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>, winalski@adserv.enet.dec.com (Paul S. Winalski) writes:
- |> PROCSECTCNT is the SYSGEN parameter that controls how many image sections a
- |> process can have active simultaneously. If the Linker did not give up on
- |> creating new image sections while doing demand-zero compression, it would
- |> be trivially easy to create images that cannot be activated.
-
- This is all true, but note that PROCSECTCNT is not a hard limit. To quote
- the 5.2 IDS ... "The PST is allowed to grow beyond PROCSECTCNT entries,
- leaving less working set list area available." For years I routinely ran
- images linked to several shareable images (with a total of about 40 ISDs)
- on a system with PROCSECTCNT set to 32 (the default). Every few months
- (perhaps once in several hundred activations) I would find that image
- activation would fail with a SS$_SECTBLFUL error (presumably because the
- WSL had filled during activation). Neil.
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