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Operating Systems AIX High Paging when lots of free memory AIX 5.3 Post 302914760 by bibish on Wednesday 27th of August 2014 03:53:11 PM
Old 08-27-2014
Thanks for the reply and sorry for not using the code tag.
This server is running java/weblogic application
Code:
$ vmstat -w -t 1 10
System configuration: lcpu=24 mem=36864MB ent=5.20
 kthr          memory                         page                       faults                 cpu             time
------- --------------------- ------------------------------------ ------------------ ----------------------- --------
  r   b        avm        fre    re    pi    po    fr     sr    cy    in     sy    cs us sy id wa    pc    ec hr mi se
  9   0    8514838       9984     0     6     9   514   1866     0  2285  12154  3000 72  2 27  0  3.83  73.6 15:48:23
  3   0    8514838      11198     0     6     3  1288   4091     0   771   9390  2266 41  2 57  0  2.23  43.0 15:48:24
  9   0    8514852      10921     0    35    12    19    109     0  3209  16445  5013 77  2 20  0  4.15  79.8 15:48:25
  4   0    8514853      10525     0     8     4     9     42     0  1789  14661  3543 72  2 26  0  3.88  74.7 15:48:26
  5   1    8514853      10049     0    21     7     9     69     0  2699  28619  5436 87  3 10  0  4.70  90.5 15:48:27
  6   0    8514868      10014     0    10    10   276    851     0  2631  23858  6503 90  2  7  0  4.83  93.0 15:48:28
  3   0    8514871      11310     0    17    16  1674   3382     0  2399  23227  4980 73  3 23  0  4.00  77.0 15:48:29
  6   0    8514873      11132     0    10     0     9     43     0  2256  17267  4099 76  3 21  0  4.10  78.9 15:48:30
  3   0    8514875      10865     0    22     3     9     53     0  2190  20454  4908 76  2 22  0  4.06  78.1 15:48:31
  3   0    8514877      10337     0     6     0     0      0     0  2645  14323  4269 69  2 28  0  3.75  72.1 15:48:32

Code:
$ vmstat -vs
          26718300070 total address trans. faults
           4324247173 page ins
           3782710509 page outs
             82381547 paging space page ins
             76413162 paging space page outs
                    0 total reclaims
           8121975552 zero filled pages faults
             11657654 executable filled pages faults
          15016368991 pages examined by clock
                25189 revolutions of the clock hand
           5277096998 pages freed by the clock
             65041712 backtracks
               171316 free frame waits
                    0 extend XPT waits
            281450154 pending I/O waits
           8082022155 start I/Os
            846120866 iodones
          42694017510 cpu context switches
          16834766912 device interrupts
           1952030653 software interrupts
          19827299303 decrementer interrupts
            165373147 mpc-sent interrupts
            165373098 mpc-received interrupts
           1330553110 phantom interrupts
                    0 traps
         190748815496 syscalls
              9437184 memory pages
              9048488 lruable pages
                11461 free pages
                    5 memory pools
              1796762 pinned pages
                 80.0 maxpin percentage
                 20.0 minperm percentage
                 50.0 maxperm percentage
                 19.3 numperm percentage
              1753772 file pages
                  0.0 compressed percentage
                    0 compressed pages
                 19.3 numclient percentage
                 50.0 maxclient percentage
              1753772 client pages
                    0 remote pageouts scheduled
                 4760 pending disk I/Os blocked with no pbuf
             14981367 paging space I/Os blocked with no psbuf
                 1972 filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
                27374 client filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
               409645 external pager filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
                    0 Virtualized Partition Memory Page Faults
                 0.00 Time resolving virtualized partition memory page faults

Code:
$ svmon -P -O sortentity=pgsp
Unit: page

Code:
Total Paging Space   Percent Used
      30720MB              24%

 

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