AIX 5.3 Physical Memory usage


 
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Old 02-03-2010
AIX 5.3 Physical Memory usage

Hi,

I have AIX 5.3TL8 two node cluster using HACMP and have 10g database using RAW devices. I am seeing gradual increase in comp% memory everyday and it reaches 100% and evicts the node, we had 4 evictions in 40days.

I am pasting vmstat and vmo output, anyone seen this issue?

Code:
 
System configuration: lcpu=24 mem=80896MB
kthr memory page faults cpu 
----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa
9 0 18526217 81948 0 0 0 0 0 0 11839 212267 34437 58 14 11 17
5 0 18531597 76528 0 0 0 0 0 0 9984 138434 29545 45 8 26 21
12 0 18532740 75078 0 0 0 0 0 0 11882 224518 38939 51 11 20 18
7 0 18532619 75123 0 0 0 0 0 0 11035 237671 34227 38 10 30 21
3 0 18534781 72918 0 0 0 0 0 0 10970 244142 34656 29 12 37 22
6 0 18524968 82543 0 0 0 0 0 0 11041 202530 34505 42 11 29 18
 
[FONT=r_ansi][SIZE=2][FONT=r_ansi][SIZE=2]# vmstat -v
20709376 memory pages
19954294 lruable pages
77329 free pages
3 memory pools
2919099 pinned pages
80.0 maxpin percentage
1.0 minperm percentage
5.0 maxperm percentage
9.8 numperm percentage
1957578 file pages
0.0 compressed percentage
0 compressed pages
9.8 numclient percentage
3.0 maxclient percentage
1957578 client pages
0 remote pageouts scheduled
55326 pending disk I/Os blocked with no pbuf
0 paging space I/Os blocked with no psbuf
2228 filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
3 client filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
6625 external pager filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
0 Virtualized Partition Memory Page Faults
0.00 Time resolving virtualized partition memory page faults
 
 
# vmo -a
cpu_scale_memp = 8
data_stagger_interval = 161
defps = 1
force_relalias_lite = 0
framesets = 2
htabscale = n/a
kernel_heap_psize = 4096
kernel_psize = 16777216
large_page_heap_size = 0
lgpg_regions = 0
lgpg_size = 0
low_ps_handling = 1
lru_file_repage = 0
lru_poll_interval = 10
lrubucket = 131072
maxclient% = 3
maxfree = 9152
maxperm = 997713
maxperm% = 5
maxpin = 16698695
maxpin% = 80
mbuf_heap_psize = 4096
memory_affinity = 0
memory_frames = 20709376
memplace_data = 2
memplace_mapped_file = 2
memplace_shm_anonymous = 2
memplace_shm_named = 2
memplace_stack = 2
memplace_text = 2
memplace_unmapped_file = 2
mempools = 3
minfree = 960
minperm = 199541
minperm% = 1
nokilluid = 0
npskill = 281600
npsrpgmax = 2252800
npsrpgmin = 1689600
npsscrubmax = 2252800
npsscrubmin = 1689600
npswarn = 1126400
num_spec_dataseg = 0
numpsblks = 36044800
page_steal_method = 1
pagecoloring = n/a
pinnable_frames = 17790211
psm_timeout_interval = 5000
pta_balance_threshold = n/a
relalias_percentage = 0
rpgclean = 0
rpgcontrol = 2
scrub = 0
scrubclean = 0
soft_min_lgpgs_vmpool = 0
spec_dataseg_int = 512
strict_maxclient = 0
strict_maxperm = 0
v_pinshm = 0
vm_modlist_threshold = -1
vmm_fork_policy = 1
vmm_mpsize_support = 0
wlm_memlimit_nonpg = 1

Thanks in advance!
Roy

Last edited by pludi; 02-03-2010 at 10:03 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 02-04-2010
AIX 5.3 Physical Memory usage

Could one of you help me?

Thanks!
Roy
# 3  
Old 02-04-2010
I can help you.

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# 4  
Old 02-05-2010
Hi,

I appolozie for it. thanks for your prompt response!

-Roy
# 5  
Old 02-05-2010
maybe
Code:
 topas

will provide better result to check what process does use so much memory
# 6  
Old 02-06-2010
Thanks for your response, I am monitoring topas output from a while. I am seeing increase in %comp memory everyday by 1%.

Thanks!
Naveen
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