Re: Help with interpreting memory performance

On Apr 19, 3:12 am, Alfred <9...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can someone explain to me how I can look at AIX memory utilization,
paging, and so on to detect an unhealthy server?

With vmstat and svmon (-G/-P) command.
To interpret their output and understand the memory utilization (thus
the healthiness of your server), besides their manpages, you need to
learn how vmm works on AIX.
There're some good documentation, for example:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.prftungd/doc/prftungd/real_memory_mngment.htm

(You don't need to explain every little thing -- I'm not that green.
I've been using Suse and RH Linux for about 6 years now, and Ubuntu
for about 2 or 3. I bootup on Linux as my primary workstation in the
office and at home, and have even converted my wife and 2 children
into Ubuntu fans.)

But have you looked into how vmm works in Linux kernel? ;-)

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