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Operating Systems AIX Free Memory in aix Post 302173612 by shockneck on Friday 7th of March 2008 08:37:02 AM
Old 03-07-2008
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Originally Posted by manoj.solaris
[...]I want to know how to find out free physical memory in aix,
define "free" ... AIX uses as much memory as it can and so there is only little "unused" memory. E.g. if there is some memory that is not used for program cache AIX uses the rest for file cache. Hence you end up with as little "free" memory as vmstat's "free" column gives. That does not necessarily imply that there is no memory left.... Smilie
 

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WINCACHE_FCACHE_MEMINFO(3)						 1						WINCACHE_FCACHE_MEMINFO(3)

wincache_fcache_meminfo - Retrieves information about file cache memory usage

SYNOPSIS
array wincache_fcache_meminfo (void ) DESCRIPTION
Retrieves information about memory usage by file cache. RETURN VALUES
Array of meta data about file cache memory usage or FALSE on failure The array returned by this function contains the following elements: o memory_total - amount of memory in bytes allocated for the file cache o memory_free - amount of free memory in bytes available for the file cache o num_used_blks - number of memory blocks used by the file cache o num_free_blks - number of free memory blocks available for the file cache o memory_overhead - amount of memory in bytes used for the file cache internal structures EXAMPLES
Example #1 A wincache_fcache_meminfo(3) example <pre> <?php print_r(wincache_fcache_meminfo()); ?> </pre> The above example will output: Array ( [memory_total] => 134217728 [memory_free] => 131339120 [num_used_blks] => 361 [num_free_blks] => 3 [memory_overhead] => 5856 ) SEE ALSO
wincache_fcache_fileinfo(3), wincache_ocache_fileinfo(3), wincache_ocache_meminfo(3), wincache_rplist_fileinfo(3), wincache_rplist_mem- info(3), wincache_refresh_if_changed(3), wincache_ucache_meminfo(3), wincache_ucache_info(3), wincache_scache_info(3), wincache_scache_mem- info(3). PHP Documentation Group WINCACHE_FCACHE_MEMINFO(3)
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