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VMS Help Sys Parameters, BALSETCNT *Conan The Librarian |
BALSETCNT sets the number of balance set slots in the system page
table. Each memory-resident working set requires one balance set
slot.
You can monitor the active system with the DCL command SHOW
MEMORY or the MONITOR PROCESSES command of the Monitor utility to
determine the actual maximum number of working sets in memory. If
this number is significantly lower than the value of BALSETCNT,
this parameter value could be lowered. If all balance set slots
are being used, raise the value of BALSETCNT.
Never set BALSETCNT to a value higher than 2 less than
MAXPROCESSCNT. If physical memory is a significant system
constraint, consider lowering this value even further. However,
if your system runs with a number of processes nearly equal to
MAXPROCESSCNT, lowering BALSETCNT forces swapping to occur, which
can affect system performance.
BALSETCNT is no longer a strict setting of the number of
processes that might be resident in memory. The swapper tries
to reduce the number of resident processes down to BALSETCNT.
However, if the total number of active processes and processes
that have disabled swapping exceeds BALSETCNT, the swapper does
not force processes out of memory just to meet the BALSETCNT
setting.
BALSETCNT is an AUTOGEN, GEN, DYNAMIC, and MAJOR parameter.
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