AW: how to calculate memory utilization on a AIX box

From: Sippel, Christian (Christian.Sippel@IZB.DE)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 07:47:04 EDT


A tool I found quite handy is nmon, have a look at

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/esdd/articles/analyze_aix/

but take care, it can produce tons of data.

HTH,
Christian

> ----------
> Von: Habeebulla Suhail[SMTP:suhail@ALRAJHIBANK.COM.SA]
> Antwort an: IBM AIX Discussion List
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2002 13:18
> An: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Betreff: how to calculate memory utilization on a AIX box
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have to give a system resources utilization report to my management,
> on a weekly basis.
>
> I have written some scripts to collect data. For CPU utilization I'm
> using sar and for memory utilization I'm using vmstat.
>
> I'm just using the free mem column and getting an average value. Then
> calculating the percentage from total real memory of the system.
>
> My question:
> 1. Is it correct what I'm doing for memory utilization?
> 2. Can someone give a URL name where I can get more information on how
> to calculate memory utilization on AIX boxes?
>
> Regards,
>
> Habeebulla Suhail
>



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