The pin is 'xm_static_checkpoint_server'. I thinks its purpose is to write
out dirty pages to disk when half of the XM log is full. There is an article
on the C.60.00 communicator (pg 219) which talks about a new feature which
can be enabled or disabled on 6.0. This should give you the answers you are
after.

Regards

Richard Bayly
Hewlett-Packard Response Centre - Australia


Stan Sieler wrote in message <[log in to unmask]>...
>Re:
>> From time to time, or randomly throughout the day I have seen (In GLANCE)
P11 MANAGER.SYS take up all our DISC I/O. The event will last for a minute
or two, and in that period of time all other process seem to hang. After P11
finishes doing whatever it was doing, everything continues to run
>fine. My question is; Can anyone tell me what P11 is doing. The machine in
question is run MPE/iX 5.5 pp7.
>
>Although you've already heard the answer, you may be interested in knowing
how
>it was derived.  The tail end of the paper at
>http://www.allegro.com/papers/whorun.html
>discusses how to get the "name" of a process that might otherwise appear to
>be nameless.
>
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