AIX

This excerpt from the box has no memory problem. At this moment it also has about nothing to do at all.

From what can be seen the system has absolutely nothing to do: The "r" and "b" columns (running and blocked kernel threads) are constantly 0, so there are no active processes in the moment.

Also the "sy", "us" and "wa" columns at the end are at 0, so there is no SYstem or USer process running and no process is WAiting for data. These are percentage values of the systems processing power and - together with "id" (idle) they (roughly) add up to 100. "id" is constantly at 99, which underlines this.

In the middle section the "pi" and "po" columns (page in and page out) are constantly zero so there is no paging activity going on. Tuning only has to take place when these values are non-zero with regularity, an occasional paging doesn't adversely affect the systems performance.

Another indication is that the "avm" (AVailable Memory) and "fre" (FREe memory) shows constant values. This means that nothing is claiming memory from the system, otherwise the numbers would change. At the end of the sampling interval you can see one single process being started (r=1) and subsequently some negligible amount of memory (2 pages ^= 8k) is claimed. Would there be sizeable activity these changes would be a lot bigger.

Bottom line: at the moment of the snapshot the only thing this system was doing was turning electric currency into heat.

I hope this helps.

bakunin