Re: Processes causing excessive paging

From: Green, Simon (SGreen@KRAFTEUROPE.COM)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 05:04:37 EST


There's an article on memory leaks in the Hints and Tips; that would
probably be a good starting place. (Even if you don't have an actual leak,
the article includes some useful guidelines on using svmon and other tools.)

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/aix.techTips
Search for memory leak.

Simon Green
Philip Morris ITSC Europe

AIX-L Archive at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=aix-l&r=1&w=2
AIX FAQ at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: FELLOWES Stephen [mailto:S.Fellowes@HERMES.CO.UK]
> Sent: 23 January 2003 09:24
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Processes causing excessive paging
>
>
> Hi,
> I am having trouble identifying a process or
> processes on a J50
> running 4.3.3. that is/are causing an excessive amount of paging.
> There have been times when the box has been 70-80% idle but
> the paging has
> increased well above 75%.
> This has only started happening in the last couple of months,
> and there have
> been no major changes to the OS or any of the applications.
>
> Could someone let me know how to identify the problem.



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