OpenVMS Alpha Version 7.1 and later contains system parameters that control the operation of bus-addressable pool (BAP).
The CIPCA, CIXCD, KFMSB, and Qlogic ISP 1020 (KZPSM-AA) adapters are some of the adapters that use bus-addressable pool to improve performance. BAP is a non-paged dynamic, physical-address-filtered memory pool used to overcome I/O bus and 32-bit adapter physical addressing limits.
The following table lists the BAP system parameters and their default values:
The default values of these parameters enable the system to boot with any configuration. When AUTOGEN is run on a configured system, it resets these parameters to values that should enhance performance for the current system configuration.
If this is an upgrade of OpenVMS, or if the system fails to boot after a hardware change and displays a message that refers to incorrect BAP parameters, HP recommends that you perform the following steps:
To begin the conversational boot, use the BOOT command in the following format:
For device-name, substitute the device name of your system disk drive from which you want to boot. For example, if the system disk has a device name of DKA400, enter the following command and press the Enter key:
>>>BOOT -FLAGS 0,1 DKA400
At the SYSBOOT> prompt, enter the following:
NPAG_BAP_MIN 0
NPAG_BAP_MAX 0
NPAG_BAP_MIN_PA 0
NPAG_BAP_MAX_PA -1
This should enable the system to boot. Once completed, enter the following command:
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.EXEThe command entered in the preceding step creates a file that will contain the BAP values for the system in its current configuration. To see what they are, enter the following command (the BAP parameters in AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT do not include the NPAG_ prefix):
$ SEARCH SYS$SYSTEM:AGEN$FEEDBACK.DAT BAPCheck MODPARAMS.DAT for any hardcoded BAP values by entering the following command:
$ SEARCH SYS$SYSTEM:MODPARAMS.DAT BAP