i'm wondering if there is a way to determine minimum memory requirement for AIX kernel and OS functions? We use memdetails script from perfpmr package to see actual memory allocation, for example like this:
You can see there is still some free memory but also that AIX kernel uses 13 GB on a 64 GB system. How can i tell what will be the maximum kernel memory? We measured this after reboot and starting the applications, kernel took only 2 GB but during 4 months it gradually grew to 13 GB. What would happen if i configured applications to take let's say 60 GB of memory. Will AIX handle that and live with 4 GB for kernel or will it start trashing until reboot is necessary? I can't seem to find any minimum OS requirements so i don't really know how much memory is available to applications. There are no exact figures, everyone only mentions it depends on running services, devices, network etc. etc. but there is no hint of how to calculate the maximum potential usage alltogether.
Anyone has dealt with this before that could help? I have been trying to apply for AIX Performance tuning training for last 3 years so i could ask these questions but since i was always the only one who applied, the course was never opened
Hello,
I'm using a unix server (HP rp2450) which has : 2 Go RAM memory and 4 Go swap.
Here is the result of vmstat -n command :
$ vmstat -n
VM
memory page faults
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Dears i want to have a clear view about this tuning parameters and what they related to FS or Oracle , and how to figure the percentage of them .
maxperm%
maxclient%
v_pinshm = 1
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Hi,
we've a gigabit Ethernet adapter. And we wanted to improve the performance by tuning network parameters. so' as per IBM info center,
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.aix.prftungd%2Fdoc%2Fprftungd%2Fnetw_opt.htm
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