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remove page space
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RodKnowlton
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- Apr 26, 2000
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What's the output of "lsps -a" and which paging space do you want to remove?
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The procedure to remove a paging space is more risky, especially if the paging space you want to remove is a default paging space, such as hd6. A special procedure is required for removing the default paging spaces, because they are activated during boot time by shell scripts that configure the system. To remove one of the default paging spaces, these scripts must be altered and a new boot image must be created.Regards,
Khalid
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The paging space that I want to remove is not the default hd6. It is the paging02 below. It was addd by mistake.
root@wfscr04:/#lsps -a
Page Space Physical Volume Volume Group Size %Used Active Auto Type
paging02 hdisk1 rootvg 1600MB 1 yes yes lv
paging01 hdisk1 rootvg 1920MB 8 yes yes lv
paging00 hdisk1 rootvg 1920MB 8 yes yes lv
hd6 hdisk0 rootvg 1600MB 10 yes yes lv
root@wfscr04:/#
root@wfscr04:/#lsps -a
Page Space Physical Volume Volume Group Size %Used Active Auto Type
paging02 hdisk1 rootvg 1600MB 1 yes yes lv
paging01 hdisk1 rootvg 1920MB 8 yes yes lv
paging00 hdisk1 rootvg 1920MB 8 yes yes lv
hd6 hdisk0 rootvg 1600MB 10 yes yes lv
root@wfscr04:/#
Your %Used of 1% suggests to me that it was added very recently and it wont have enough pages in use on it to cause a problem. More than likely you wont even see the other %Used figures increase...
simply remove that paging space
Or use smit/smitty if you want. Menu shortcut is "smit pgsp", direct shortcuts are "smit swapoff" and "smit rmps".
Remark: I seem to remember it is better to have one big PgSp or, on multiple PgSps, have them all the same size. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
HTH,
p5wizard
simply remove that paging space
Code:
swapoff /dev/paging02
rmps /dev/paging02Or use smit/smitty if you want. Menu shortcut is "smit pgsp", direct shortcuts are "smit swapoff" and "smit rmps".
Remark: I seem to remember it is better to have one big PgSp or, on multiple PgSps, have them all the same size. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
HTH,
p5wizard
RodKnowlton
MIS
- Apr 26, 2000
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With multiple page spaces, a round-robin allocation algorithm is used, so they should optimally be the same size. For the obsessive balance seekers, hd6 should actually be one partition larger because it's the only paging space available during system initialization. If you run the numbers from "lsps -a", you'll see that there's a little bit more space used on hd6 (if space is being used at all).
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