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Operating Systems HP-UX How swap used in HPUX ? Post 302574735 by vbe on Friday 18th of November 2011 07:48:30 AM
Old 11-18-2011
On your system I presume the kernel parameter swapmem_on is set to 1 (default value for 11.31) this means that the system can (and will ...) use up to 70% of your physical memory "AS" swap... after using all the physical memory as swap it will continue on de swap device...
In your case I find it frightening to see 19% of this time true swap used (meaning 12 GB contiguous disk space accessed...) has your system not slowed down?

compare to theses figures:
Code:
ran:/home/vbe $ swapinfo -tam
             Mb      Mb      Mb   PCT  START/      Mb
TYPE      AVAIL    USED    FREE  USED   LIMIT RESERVE  PRI  NAME
dev        2048       0    2048    0%       0       -    1  /dev/vg00/lvol2
dev        2060       0    2060    0%       0       -    1  /dev/esvg01/lvol2
dev        2048       0    2048    0%       0       -    1  /dev/esvg02/lvol2
reserve       -    1071   -1071
memory     5329    1560    3769   29%
total     11485    2631    8854   23%       -       0    -

Disk access / used = 0!

Noticed how I "balanced the load if ever it has to use the swap? ( It will write to the three in parallel multiplying the throughput...)
 

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NAME
cpufreq-set - A small tool which allows to modify cpufreq settings. SYNTAX
cpufreq-set [options] DESCRIPTION
cpufreq-set allows you to modify cpufreq settings without having to type e.g. "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_set_speed" all the time. OPTIONS
-c --cpu <CPU> number of CPU where cpufreq settings shall be modified. -d --min <FREQ> new minimum CPU frequency the governor may select. -u --max <FREQ> new maximum CPU frequency the governor may select. -g --governor <GOV> new cpufreq governor. -f --freq <FREQ> specific frequency to be set. Requires userspace governor to be available and loaded. -r --related modify all hardware-related CPUs at the same time -h --help Prints out the help screen. REMARKS
Omitting the -c or --cpu argument is equivalent to setting it to zero. The -f FREQ, --freq FREQ parameter cannot be combined with any other parameter except the -c CPU, --cpu CPU parameter. FREQuencies can be passed in Hz, kHz (default), MHz, GHz, or THz by postfixing the value with the wanted unit name, without any space (fre- quency in kHz =^ Hz * 0.001 =^ MHz * 1000 =^ GHz * 1000000). On Linux kernels up to 2.6.29, the -r or --related parameter is ignored. FILES
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/ /proc/cpufreq (deprecated) /proc/sys/cpu/ (deprecated) AUTHORS
Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> - author Mattia Dongili<malattia@gmail.com> - first autolibtoolization SEE ALSO
cpufreq-info(1) Mattia Dongili 0.1 cpufreq-set(1)
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