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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Simple advanced question Post 13101 by Neil_mw on Friday 11th of January 2002 05:22:56 AM
Old 01-11-2002
Thanks for your replies everyone - much appreciated.

Cameron - unforunately, Tru64 only has the old subset of system tools - vmstat, iostat, etc. Unfortunately SAR isn't one of them. I've used SAR in the past and really don't like not having it!

Neo - yes, I'd love to order more RAM, but before we do so, it unfortunately needs to be justified! The only way that I can do that is to show that the statistics that we are getting are over a particular threshold.

Perderabo - thanks for the information about pages out (pout). Yes we do have entries in this column (around 5000 per minute using vmstat), however the same question still applies - is this too high and what should it be?!!

I do appreciate that if everything was in RAM then so much the better, but surely this is not essential. For instance, if we have, say, 1000 processes and around 250 of them are idle. If those 250 were in swap it wouldn't matter - paging would occur but it shouldn't be a problem. Obviously if only 600 processes could fit in RAM and the other 150 active transactions were also in swap, it may well be the cause of problems.

Hope this may be of assistance!!

Kind regards,

Neil
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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