From: Derek Gatherer (d.gatherer@vir.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 07:57:21 EST
Hi Managers
I have a user running an application called 'mb' from a DEC Alphastation
255, running Tru64 5.1B with Patchkit 3 installed.
Nothing much else runs on this machine:
load
averages: 2.32, 2.39, 2.32
12:30:10
68 processes: 3 running, 19 sleeping, 46 idle
CPU states: 64.7% user, 0.0% nice, 35.2% system, 0.0% idle
Memory: Real: 92M/238M act/tot Virtual: 50M/768M use/tot Free: 41M
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
171718 mcge1d 57 0 59M 52M run 18.2H 74.80% mb
173703 gath1d 53 0 5672K 1015K sleep 0:03 22.90% xterm
175517 gath1d 44 0 4016K 1130K run 0:09 0.10% top
168287 gath1d 63 19 17M 12M run 350:36 0.00% perl5.8.0
etc....
mb requires about 60Mb of memory, according the the supplier. However it
has an advanced mode that requires about 4 times this, and that won't run
under present conditions (it just halts saying that insuffucient resources
are available)
>vmstat 5
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
procs memory pages intr cpu
r w u act free wire fault cow zero react pin pout in sy cs us
sy id
5 147 39 17K 5705 7184 27M 3M 12M 195K 4M 47K 93 288 360
62 2 36
5 147 39 17K 5703 7184 2 14 12 0 25 0 3 11 259
99 1 0
5 147 39 17K 5702 7184 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 12 258
98 2 0
5 147 39 17K 5702 7184 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 36 266
99 1 0
5 147 39 17K 5702 7184 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 258
99 1 0
5 147 39 17K 5702 7184 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 264
99 1 0
How can I adjust this to increase available memory? According to my
textbooks, w is quite large here. Also I believe that I can't just use
swapon on tru64 in the same way as, say, Irix.
All suggestions gratefully received.
Cheers
Derek
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