Re: Paging space on a fastT

From: jbarratt (jbarratt@COMPSAT.COM)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 12:19:50 EST


It seems to me that since you can turn on and off paging spaces on the
fly, and that deferred paging space algorithms don't take more than
necessary. that you would just add as needed (that's what I have always
done)..however, don't come crying to SAP when paging space hits 100% and
you are unable to open a terminal session to add more...you will
probably be recycling the power.

Just my 2 cents

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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Wilson, Jeff
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:09 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Paging space on a fastT

We are running 5.1 . I am going to try and talk them into changing the
min and maxperms first and see how that helps. We mostly see the paging
space get lower and lower over time. We start out with 98% free and
over a couple of months it gets down to 60-70% free.

Jeff Wilson
303-737-5399

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From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM [mailto:Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:52 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Paging space on a fastT

Version of AIX?

Reason for this is with aix 5 you now have whats commonly referred to
defferred paging. This essentially is the allocation of paging space
when it's needed, rather than in previous versions of aix 4.3.2 and
below I believe where exe's would allocate paging space as large as
their running image even if it turned out they never used it. This is
one of the reasons Simon points out that its no longer necessary to
adhere to vendors software requirements for paging space in certain
cases bc its really solution dependent.

Bobby Kelley Jr.
972-877-5341

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We run SAP on Oracle.

We set minperm to 5% and maxperm to 20%. Helps alot.
Our SAP team wants 3x memory for paging also. We ignore this and give
them 1x. With minperm/maxperm set, they use very little paging space.

Mark Hunter

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From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM [mailto:Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 10:21 AM
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what version of aix are you running? check your vmtune settings and post
pls

Bobby Kelley Jr.
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We are running the paging monster app "SAP on DB2". I have never seen
an app eat paging space like this one. If we bounce SAP we get it all
back but until we do that SAP keeps all the paging space and dose not
release it. As always the recommend 2 X physical memory but with the
new SAP installs they want 3 X physical memory which is ridicules but I
have no choice in the matter so I have to add it even if they don't need
it.

Jeff Wilson
303-737-5399
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      From: JOSEPH KREMBLAS [mailto:jkremblas@REDHEARTGIFTS.COM]
      Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:34 AM
      To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
      Subject: Re: Paging space on a fastT

      Jeff,

          Before throwing more paging space at the system, have you ran
      vmstat and iostat to see what the system is doing? Can you provide
a
      vmstat listing and iostat listing? Are you running Oracle? Any
other
      databases? Also, provide the output of vmtune and schedtune. The
      group may be able to tell what's going on performance wise and
make
      some recommedations.

              --joseph
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      From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
Behalf
      Of Wilson, Jeff
      Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 8:27 AM
      To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
      Subject: Paging space on a fastT
      I was wondering if anyone has had any experience putting paging
space
      on attached disks like a fastT 900. I am out of space on my
internal
      OS disks and need more paging space and was wondering if there are
      any problems I should be aware of before I do this. Thanks for
you
      help.

      Jeff Wilson
      System Administrator
      Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co.
      Desk: (303) 737-5399

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