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From: thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: LAVC: uVAX II / RD53 as bootnode
Message-ID: <5297@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 88 21:31:15 GMT
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Reply-To: thompson@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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A number of messages recently have pointed out that you can't run a
MicroVAX II with an RD53 as a boot node in an LAVC because the dump
files etc take up too much space. However, this is not absoultely
true. As long as you have local paging and swapping files on the
satellites (so that they're not on the system disk), you can put ONE
dump file in sys$common:[sysexe]; just make sure it's large enough
for the biggest system. Of course, if all your machines crash at
once and you want to analyze the dumps, you're out of luck....