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Operating Systems AIX type of pages being paged in/out Post 302501800 by zxmaus on Friday 4th of March 2011 09:36:30 PM
Old 03-04-2011
I have a few hundred oracle boxes - in my experience the systems are most comfortable when comp (the avm value in vmstat x 4k) doesnt exceed 80% as this leaves enough memory for all the oracle forked processes, IO buffering, batch processing and so on.
When my memory utilization exceeds these 80% than my system starts scanning / freeing memory which utilizes cpu and slows down the DB as the system waits for sufficient freed up memory to continue processing - which obviously is bad. The higher the scan to free ratio - so the more pages need to be scanned to free up the memory I actually need for the given workload - the slower the system gets and the more cpu is utilized. So I make sure I always have plenty of memory - as particularly for oracle the need of non-comp memory is very valid as its usually a filesystem based DB - and not finding filecache if needed slows down the DB too as no IO can happen ...
Please note - during rman backups you still will see some scan and free as this puts - at least in my environments - a large amount of additional load onto the systems. So my 80% are during busy times but not when rman runs. Nmon is pretty helpful to find out what is good for your system and when you do have your busy times.

Virtual memory btw is physical memory + pagingspace in 4k pages. Virtual memory in use is how much of this you are actively using - ideally visibly less than you physically have Smilie

Regards
zxmaus
 

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MEMORY_PRESSURE(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					MEMORY_PRESSURE(1)

NAME
memory_pressure -- Tool to apply real or simulate memory pressure on the system. SYNOPSIS
memory_pressure [-l level] | [-p percent_free] | [-S -l level] OPTIONS
-l <level> Apply real or simulate memory pressure (if specified alongside simulate argument) on the system till low memory notifications cor- responding to <level> are generated. Supported values are "warn" and "critical". -p <percent_free> Allocate memory till the available memory in the system is <percent_free> of total memory. If the percentage of available memory to total memory on the system drops, the tool will free memory till either the desired percentage is achieved or it runs out of memory to free. -S Simulate memory pressure on the system by placing it artificially for <sleep_seconds> duration at the "warn" or "critical" level. -s <sleep_seconds> Duration to wait before allocating or freeing memory if applying real pressure. In case of simulating memory pressure, this is the duration the system will be maintained at an artifical memory level. DESCRIPTION
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