04-08-2019
Pinned system memory growing constantly
Hi,
Pre data: a server running AIX 6.1 TL9 with 2GB memory and a small amount of CPU, running a very light workload.
I have a server which crashed on lack of memory. After the crash I found - using nmon analyser - that there was something eating up memory. Nmon referred to it as "system".
Now, after 2 days of uptime I see that the same "someting" is eating up memory again. I've been using nmon, vmstat and svmon to see what is happening, but all I see is that
- - all user process is using the same amount of memory
- - vmstat shows a steady decrease on free list
- - svmon -G shows the same steady amount of memory being pinned
- - svmon -P shows that there is no change of pinned memory usage in the listed processes
The rate of memory loss is about 0.5% in every hour.
So I assume that some kernel related object is accumulating the pinned memory.
Can you please help me to find out the problematic part?
Additional info: there was a reported bug in AIX7.2 which have been corrected in an update. But: this machine was running for a while without any problems.
--Trifo
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NAME
loratune - initiate LORA tuneup to improve alignment of processing resources
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The command improves the performance of an HP-UX system in LORA (Locality-Optimizated Resource Alignment) mode, by triggering the kernel to
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Options
This option limits the tuning to the locality domain specified by
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Application Usage
In Locality-Optimized Resource Alignment (LORA) mode, performance of applications may improve when their processors and the memory that
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RETURN VALUES
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ERRORS
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WARNINGS
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