From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 21 2003 - 11:05:08 EST
"free" is the amount of memory which is completely unused. It will always
be very low in an AIX system: RAM is a valuable resource, so AIX will find
something to do with it rather than have it sit idle. A small amount is
kept free to help cope with sudden surges in demand.
I can't say which column you should use, because I don't know what
information you want and what you intend to use it for. Because of the way
AIX works, (see above), free/inuse is largely meaningless for any purpose.
So: what are you trying to achieve?
Simon Green
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-----Original Message-----
From: Khalid Benhayoune [mailto:benhayoune_k@YAHOO.FR]
Sent: 21 January 2003 15:49
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Urgent : total memory usage
Thank you very much.
Should I consider the value returned bu svmon -G for the "virtual" colonne
as the amount memory (RAM) used by all the system ? What's for the "free"
colonne which is always very low ?
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