VMS and supported VAX hardware

[Rich Alderson]

From: Ian S. King
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 3:30 PM

> ISTR having run 7.2 briefly on an 11/785 (to troubleshoot an install
> problem with 6.2), and while I didn't do much with it, it did come up and
> run.  And I've used 7.2 quite a bit on 3100-series machines with minimal
> RAM.  Granted, I didn't try to do anything resource-intensive, but I did
> run the machines over serial.  -- Ian


Recently upgraded from 6.2 to 7.3 in order to install TCP/IP Services instead
of CMU/IP (discussed in this list at the time).  Runs very nicely.  For comparison
to Christian Gauger-Cosgrove's SimH instance:


                        Welcome to Rosencrantz!
                (VAX-11/780-5 @ Living Computer Museum)

   $ show cpu

   ROSIE, a VAX-11/785
   Multiprocessing is DISABLED. Uniprocessing synchronization image loaded.

   PRIMARY CPU = 00
   Active CPUs:      00
   Configured CPUs:  00
   $ show mem
                 System Memory Resources on  6-OCT-2015 11:56:59.90

   Physical Memory Usage (pages):     Total        Free      In Use    Modified
     Main Memory (24.00Mb)            49152       17336       29050        2766

   Virtual I/O Cache Usage (pages):   Total        Free      In Use     Maximum
     Cache Memory                      6857           0        6857       27869

   Slot Usage (slots):                Total        Free    Resident     Swapped
     Process Entry Slots                130         109          21           0
     Balance Set Slots                   88          69          19           0

   Dynamic Memory Usage (bytes):      Total        Free      In Use     Largest
     Nonpaged Dynamic Memory        2372608      827264     1545344      591552
     Paged Dynamic Memory           1465856     1098720      367136     1097792

   Paging File Usage (pages):                      Free  Reservable       Total
     DISK$VMS062SYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]SWAPFILE.SYS      2008        2008        2008
     DISK$VMS062SYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS     49526       14657       54016

   Of the physical pages in use, 13854 pages are permanently allocated to OpenVMS.
   $ show sys
   OpenVMS V7.3  on node ROSIE   6-OCT-2015 11:57:15.12  Uptime  40 16:53:36
     Pid    Process Name    State  Pri      I/O       CPU       Page flts  Pages
   20200101 SWAPPER         HIB     16        0   0 00:08:51.85         0      0
   20211504 ALDERSON        CUR      4      276   0 00:00:22.08     13616    381
   20200106 CLUSTER_SERVER  HIB     12       11   0 00:00:00.50       200    307
   20200107 CONFIGURE       HIB      9       29   0 00:00:00.36       125    185
   20200108 LANACP          HIB     13       48   0 00:00:01.25       360    864
   2020010A IPCACP          HIB     10        6   0 00:00:24.77       191    102
   2020010B ERRFMT          HIB      8    24786   0 00:08:27.24       145    216
   2020010C CACHE_SERVER    HIB     16        6   0 00:00:00.15        83    123
   2020010D OPCOM           HIB      9   210903   0 00:48:41.89      4757    230
   2020010E AUDIT_SERVER    HIB     10    43181   0 00:29:34.51       642    621
   2020010F JOB_CONTROL     HIB     10    95355   0 00:13:24.10       359    335
   20200110 QUEUE_MANAGER   HIB     10    37658   0 00:13:55.68       830    735
   20200111 SECURITY_SERVER HIB     10    21452   0 01:15:12.72      5131   1338
   20200112 SMISERVER       HIB      9       35   0 00:09:59.82       346    169
   20200113 TCPIP$INETACP   HIB      8   375775   0 02:02:09.30      1223    882
   20211048 SMJ             LEF      6   286296   0 00:41:45.37       937    615
   20206662 CROSS           LEF      4     7864   0 00:04:36.76     42366    280
   2020396E TCPIP$FTP_3     LEF     10      819   0 00:00:24.54      6472   1796  N
   2020B277 TORESBE         LEF      4     1543   0 00:00:52.86     11107    307
   2021147E STREMHLAV       LEF      6      319   0 00:00:13.62      6577    308
   $


                                                                Rich


Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
2245 1st Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98134

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