In AIX 6.1 lru_file_repage is set to 0 by default. Wouldn't setting this option to 1 cause heavier paging? As you can see there are almost all lruable pages so i guess this would have performance impact. Also restricted options like lru_file_repage are not mentioned in manual pages.
About the kernel using file memory, file memory isn't only used by kernel, is it correct? Currently there is more file memory than kernel memory in use:
Code:
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Memory accounting summary | 4K Pages | Megabytes
----------------------------------------------------|----------|-----------
Total memory in system | 16842752 | 65792.00
Total memory in use | 13098163 | 51164.69
Kernel identified memory (segids,wlm_hw_pages) | 4051924 | 15827.82
Kernel un-identified memory | 18006 | 70.33
Fork tree pages | 0 | 0.00
Large Page Pool free pages | 0 | 0.00
Huge Page Pool free pages | 0 | 0.00
User private memory | 1379905 | 5390.25
User shared memory | 1127620 | 4404.76
User shared library text memory | 141072 | 551.06
Text/Executable code memory in use | 8880 | 34.68
Text/Executable code memory not in use | 279924 | 1093.45
File memory | 5696733 | 22252.86
User un-identifed memory | 394099 | 1539.44
---------------------- | |
Total accounted in-use | 13098163 | 51164.69
Free memory | 3744589 | 14627.30
---------------------- | |
Total identified (total ident.+free) | 16430647 | 64182.21
Total unidentified (kernel+user w/ segids) | 412105 | 1609.78
---------------------- | |
Total accounted | 16842752 | 65792.00
Total unaccounted | 1277893 | 4991.76
it's being purged once in a while (can't post URL, because i don't have 5 posts yet, so i might add it in the future posts )
i will explore the ipcs to see if i find something useful, thanks for steering
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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elvtune
ELVTUNE(8) System Manager's Manual ELVTUNE(8)NAME
elvtune - I/O elevator tuner
SYNOPSIS
elvtune [-r r_lat] [-w w_lat] [-b b_max] device...
elvtune -h
elvtune -v
DESCRIPTION
elvtune allows to tune the I/O elevator per blockdevice queue basis. The tuning can be safely done at runtime. Tuning the elevator means
being able to change disk performance and interactiveness. In the output of elvtune the address of the queue tuned will be shown and it can
be considered as a queue ID. For example multiple partitions in the same harddisk will share the same queue and so tuning one partition
will be like tuning the whole HD.
OPTIONS -r r_lat
set the max latency that the I/O scheduler will provide on each read.
-w w_lat
set the max latency that the I/O scheduler will provide on each write.
-b b_max
max coalescing factor allowed on writes when there are reads pending in the queue.
-h help.
-v version.
NOTE
Actually the only fields tunable are those relative to the IO scheduler. It's not possible to select a one-way or two-way elevator yet.
For logical blockdevices like LVM the tuning has to be done on the physical devices. Tuning the queue of the LVM logical device is useless.
RETURN VALUE
0 on success and 1 on failure.
HISTORY
Ioctls for tuning elevator behaviour were added in Linux 2.3.99-pre1.
AUTHORS
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> SuSE
AVAILABILITY
The elvtune command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.
Version 1.0 14 March 2000 ELVTUNE(8)
02-11-2014
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