SUMMARY: (kinda) Tuning swap/vm system parameters

From: Mohamed K. Ahmed (mkahmed_at_vsc.teksystems.com)
Date: 06/26/03

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    Well, thanks for the responces from Alan Davis, Selden Ball, Allan
    Rollow, Brian Staab and Grant Schoep.

    I am in the process now of increasing the swap space to at least double
    the physical memory as recommended.
    In the time being, I have changed the swap mode to lazy mode (set
    vm_swap_eager to 0 ), and no problem thus far, installed top,
    monitor, the /usr/local/bin/top output is around the following figures

    load averages: 1.13, 0.71, 0.71
    120 processes: 3 running, 47 sleeping, 69 idle, 1 zombie
    CPU states: 44.9% user, 0.2% nice, 4.8% system, 49.9% idle
    Memory: Real: 1170M/4506M act/tot Virtual: 5201M use/tot Free: 2725M

    I will continue to monitor the system and update the list with any new
    foundings.

    Thenks

    -Mohamed

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Mohamed K. Ahmed" <mkahmed@vsc.teksystems.com>
    Date: Friday, June 20, 2003 2:41 pm
    Subject: Tuning swap/vm system parameters

    > Hello all,
    > The system is ES40, Tru64 Unix version 5.1 PK 5, 4 CPUs and 4GB
    > physical memory
    >
    > I just have a question, why do I have always teh out put of swapon
    > -s almost the same?
    >
    > # swapon -s
    > Swap partition /dev/disk/dsk0b (default swap):
    > Allocated space: 665742 pages (5.08GB)
    > In-use space: 16 pages ( 0%)
    > Free space: 665726 pages ( 99%) <--------- This one
    >
    >
    > Total swap allocation:
    > Allocated space: 665742 pages (5.08GB)
    > Reserved space: 361349 pages ( 54%)
    > In-use space: 16 pages ( 0%)
    > Available space: 304393 pages ( 45%)
    > #
    >
    > And some times when there is a lot of developers on the system,
    > the Reserved swap space coes up to 90% without the 99% of Fre Space
    > changing?
    > Do I need to Allocate more swap or tune the vm kernel parameters?
    > The sysconfig vm and proc parameters follow
    > # sysconfig -q vm
    > vm:
    > ubc_minpercent = 10
    > ubc_maxpercent = 70
    > ubc_borrowpercent = 20
    > vm_max_wrpgio_kluster = 32768
    > vm_max_rdpgio_kluster = 16384
    > vm_cowfaults = 4
    > vm_segmentation = 1
    > vm_ubcpagesteal = 24
    > vm_ubcfilemaxdirtypages = 4294967295
    > vm_ubcdirtypercent = 10
    > ubc_maxdirtywrites = 5
    > vm_ubcseqstartpercent = 50
    > vm_ubcseqpercent = 20
    > vm_csubmapsize = 1048576
    > vm_ubcbuffers = 256
    > vm_syncswapbuffers = 128
    > vm_asyncswapbuffers = 4
    > vm_clustermap = 1048576
    > vm_clustersize = 65536
    > vm_syswiredpercent = 80
    > vm_troll_percent = 4
    > vm_inswappedmin = 1
    > vm_page_free_target = 2048
    > vm_page_free_swap = 522
    > vm_page_free_hardswap = 16384
    > vm_page_free_min = 20
    > vm_page_free_reserved = 10
    > vm_page_free_optimal = 522
    > vm_swap_eager = 1 <-----------------
    > swapdevice = /dev/disk/dsk0b
    > vm_page_prewrite_target = 2048
    > vm_ffl = 1
    > ubc_ffl = 1
    > vm_rss_maxpercent = 100
    > anon_rss_enforce = 0
    > vm_rss_block_target = 522
    > vm_rss_wakeup_target = 522
    > dump_user_pte_pages = 0
    > kernel_stack_pages = 0
    > vm_min_kernel_address = 18446741891866165248
    > malloc_percpu_cache = 1
    > vm_aggressive_swap = 0 <---------
    > new_wire_method = 1
    > vm_segment_cache_max = 50
    > gh_chunks = 0
    > rad_gh_regions[0] = 0
    > gh_min_seg_size = 8388608
    > gh_fail_if_no_mem = 1
    > private_cache_percent = 0
    > gh_keep_sorted = 0
    > gh_front_alloc = 1
    > replicate_user_text = 1
    > enable_yellow_zone = 0
    > boost_pager_priority = 0
    > kstack_free_target = 5
    > #
    >
    > # sysconfig -q proc
    > proc:
    > max_proc_per_user = 1024
    > max_threads_per_user = 2048
    > per_proc_stack_size = 8388608
    > max_per_proc_stack_size = 33554432
    > per_proc_data_size = 2684354560 <------------
    > max_per_proc_data_size = 2684354560 <------------
    > max_per_proc_address_space = 5453758464 <------------
    > per_proc_address_space = 5453758464 <------------
    > executable_stack = 0
    > autonice = 0
    > autonice_time = 600
    > autonice_penalty = 4
    > open_max_soft = 4096
    > open_max_hard = 4096
    > ncallout_alloc_size = 8192
    > round_robin_switch_rate = 0
    > sched_min_idle = 0
    > give_boost = 1
    > maxusers = 256
    > num_wait_queues = 256
    > num_timeout_hash_queues = 256
    > enhanced_core_name = 0
    > enhanced_core_max_versions = 16
    > exec_disable_arg_limit = 0
    > dump_cores = 1
    > dump_setugid_cores = 0
    > #
    >
    > -Mohamed


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