Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!
Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!
-
Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!
-
Paging when there's plenty of free physical memory
Thanks for the thorough explanation, Khalid. This makes sense. I know that VM works by "touching" pages from time to time, which can appear as sporadic paging. Just wanted to make certain. Best, headaix -
Paging when there's plenty of free physical memory
5200-08 from oslevel -r here's the output of vmo -a cpu_scale_memp = 8 data_stagger_interval = 161 defps = 1 force_relalias_lite = 0 framesets = 2 htabscale = n/a kernel_heap_psize = 4096 large_page_heap_size = 0 lgpg_regions = 0... -
Paging when there's plenty of free physical memory
I am seeing sporadic paging, very minimal, but somewhat confusing. The server in question has about 18GB of RAM free. Is this a VMO setting or settings that needs to be addressed? Minperm is 10%, Max is 20%. Minfree is 1920, Max is 2048 16 CPUs, Power5 48GB RAM 40GB Paging space is about 2%...
