oh my jes2 Resources.

Story of an inexperienced operator / programmer

I wrote a small program to try and find the range of the random number
generator and it was
acting strangely - supposedly the random number was never lower than 999.. ?

So in a  fit of stupids I added a line to the program to print out the
number returned from the random number generator and a number
counting the number of calls to IRND i had made...

Submitted the job, then though "hmm this is lilely to generate a ton of dead
tree"

About that time the console started complaining of "job has exceeded line
limit by x"

oh not good.

so I try to purge/stop the jobe with:  P jobnumber  at console a (dev 011)

console says no job named jobnumber

so I try

p jobname (from job card)

console says no job named that either

$p? (no)
oh now the console is saying "spool space is 80% used" or something like
that

errh!  try many other $P P c jobname c jobnumber nothing stops the job.

Ok try a normal shutdown.
No dice, the job is using the computer right now and you cant tell it
anything...
spool space is 99% used

hmm can't shutdown, can't stop the job. Spool space is completely filled
now.


Ok, here's the stupid... go to the blinky light panel and "remove power",
 turn the thing off.

In a real shop I probably just got fired with extreme prejudice. That's not
only fired,
but probably fired out of a cannon!


Ipl again. seems normal until just after the r 00,clpa then it prints the
normal few lines
and is just sitting there - I guess it's finishing up it's thinking from
when it was so rudely
interrupted.

hope it gets done soon.

How *do* you stop a job that has gone off the rails?

p.s.  Now all it's good for is saying

$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE. CODE = CMBS

which Google leads me to belive I am out of console message blocks
but nothing tells me what to do about it right now (increase the number
of message blocks?)

What I need is empty out the filled message blocks since I don't think
I have any message waiting.  The consoles are both in Roll Delete
so there are no built up messages.

?

Ron