Re: Paging space on a fastT

From: Alan Vidmar (Alan.Vidmar@COLORADO.EDU)
Date: Wed Jan 14 2004 - 14:50:19 EST


> Also be aware that if these are jfs2 filesystems, make the necessary
> changes to the j2_* parameters also

What does this mean?
TIA,
Alan

On 14 Jan 2004 at 12:25, jbarratt wrote:

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From:                             jbarratt <jbarratt@COMPSAT.COM>
Subject:                        Re: Paging space on a fastT
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> I assume many people are going to recommend you crank down minperm and
> maxperm, after that you might want to look at some of the other
> variables. Particularly maxpgahead (if you do a lot of consecutive
> reads), maxrandwrt if your I/O wait goes up when syncd runs, and
> lvm_bufcnt if the oracle instance under SAP resides on raw devices..
> Also be aware of necessary changes to minfree/maxfree due to some
> co/interdependencies
>
> Also be aware that if these are jfs2 filesystems, make the necessary
> changes to the j2_* parameters also
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Wilson, Jeff
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:55 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Paging space on a fastT
>
>
> Here is my vmtune results .
>
> vmtune:  current values:
>   -p       -P        -r          -R         -f       -F       -N
> -W
> minperm  maxperm  minpgahead maxpgahead  minfree  maxfree  pd_npages
> maxrandwrt
>  401040  1604160       2          8        120      128      65536
> 0
>
>   -M      -w      -k      -c        -b         -B           -u        -l
> -d
> maxpin npswarn npskill numclust numfsbufs hd_pbuf_cnt lvm_bufcnt
> lrubucket defps
> 1677709   88064   22016       1     186       1152          9
> 131072     1
>
>         -s              -n         -S         -L          -g
> -h
> sync_release_ilock  nokilluid  v_pinshm  lgpg_regions  lgpg_size
> strict_maxperm
>         0               0           0           0            0        0
>
>     -t           -j              -J               -z
> maxclient  j2_nPagesPer j2_maxRandomWrite  j2_nRandomCluster
> 1604160           32            0                  0
>
>     -Z                  -q                    -Q                -y
> j2_nBufferPer  j2_minPageReadAhead  j2_maxPageReadAhead memory_affinity
>       512              2                    8                 0
>
>     -V                  -i
> num_spec_dataseg  spec_dataseg_int
>       0                512
>
> PTA balance threshold percentage = 50.0%
>
> number of valid memory pages = 2097136  maxperm=80.0% of real memory
> maximum pinable=80.0% of real memory    minperm=20.0% of real memory
> number of file memory pages = 1287466   numperm=64.2% of real memory
> number of compressed memory pages = 4409        compressed=0.2% of real
> memory
> number of client memory pages = 0       numclient=0.0% of real memory
> # of remote pgs sched-pageout = 0       maxclient=80.0% of real memory
>
> Jeff Wilson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM [mailto:Bob.Kelley@BRINKSINC.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:21 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Paging space on a fastT
>
> what version of aix are you running? check your vmtune settings and post
> pls
>
> Bobby Kelley Jr.
> 972-877-5341
>
>
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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
>       -----Original Message-----
>       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
>       -----Original Message-----
>       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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