AIX 5.1 thewall parameter not enough memory

[raylin]

Since I upgraded to AIX 5.1 I get often the message that there is not enough memory. After a little investigation
I found that the parameter "thewall" can no more be changed.
(1/2 of real memory !!!). Is there no workaround as to add more real memory ??? !!!

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

Have you tried increasing your paging space first?

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[raztaboule]

When/where do you get this message ?
How much memory and how much paging ?

Perhaps i'm wrong but i think that thewall is the limit of memory used by for " AIX internal networks processes " .
So if there is no mbuf errors reported with netstat -v you should'nt have to worry about thewall.

anyone can confirm ?

 

[raylin]

1GB memory
1GB Paging Space

 

[MoshiachNow]

Sounds more like some SW memory leak.

Please post the result of the following taken while you get these messages:

ps auxw|sort –r +3|head –20

(This shows top 20 memory using processes)

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[raylin]

sorry but at this moment I can enter nothing ...