RSX-11D System Manager's Guide

This document is a technical manual for the RSX-11D system manager. It provides detailed procedures for managing a multiuser environment, including:

• Task Accounting: Explains how to initiate and terminate accounting, how the system tracks resource usage (memory, CPU, devices), and how to interpret accounting reports.
• Spooling and Despooling: Details the mechanisms for automatic output spooling (to printers/teleprinters) and input spooling (card readers), including configuration, priority management, and error recovery.
• Checkpointing: Describes the rollout/rollin mechanism used to manage high-priority tasks in memory.
• Global Libraries/Shared Global Areas (SGAs): Covers the use, implementation, and management of shared memory areas for tasks.
• Core Dump Analysis: Provides procedures for analyzing software states after a system crash using the Core Dump Analyzer (CDA).
• Error Logging: Details how the system logs hardware (memory/device) errors and how to use analysis tools to report on system reliability.
• System Management Notes: Offers guidance on configuring ancillary control processors (ACPs), tailoring file primitive performance, and managing task builder defaults.