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# 1  
Old 08-13-2010
swap space use 100%
Hi all,

I use AIX operation version 5.3.0.0. and installation Oracle Database 10g.
When swap space use above 80%, server often hang.
my question:

How can i check that which process and path of particular file is using highest Swap space ?

Please help. thanks.
# 2  
Old 08-14-2010
use the top command to see which uses the highest cpu usage. that is the one mostly cause this outage
# 3  
Old 08-14-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by hiendv
[...]How can i check that which process and path of particular file is using highest Swap space ?[...]
Try sth. like
Code:
 # svmon -Pgt 5

This command shows the top 5 processes in paging space.
This User Gave Thanks to shockneck For This Post:
hiendv
# 4  
Old 08-15-2010
Hi,

generally speaking - you should not use ANY swapspace - especially not on a database - as this means you do not have sufficient memory and you keep your box unnecessary slow.

Kind regards
zxmaus
# 5  
Old 08-16-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by shockneck
Try sth. like
Code:
 # svmon -Pgt 5

This command shows the top 5 processes in paging space.
Thank for your help.
This command useful to me.
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