SYSTEM SET-UP FOR RUNNING HST_MASTER AND HST_SLAVE

     

To run hst_master there are no special considerations, and for hst_slave there is only the need to use a very large amount of random access memory (RAM). However, as with all programs, it is necessary for the system to be able to find the executable files. On Unix systems and often on Window systems, this means that your PATH  variable must be appropriately set.

On the Unix systems 'alpha' and 'beta' the executables  are in the directory  /usr/local/bin. So your PATH should include this directory.

At present on the Compaq-Alpha systems 'alpha' and 'beta' the default amount of memory a single process is limited to 128 Mbytes. In order to use more memory  , it is necessary to use the command limit  to increase the datasize  limit.

e.g. the following line will raise the RAM limit to 1000 Mbytes. (The units are kilobytes.)

limit datasize 1024000