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From: kirk@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Kirk Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
Subject: vmtune, paging, and swapping
Message-ID: <6264@wolfen.cc.uow.oz>
Date: 1 Jun 90 00:51:10 GMT
Organization: Uni of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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G'Day,
	has anyone had any experience with vmtune in the area of tuning a 
Symmetry series to page instead of swap. We have am S27 with 8M of memory
and as soon as 2 or more people start running a certain statistics package 
which uses a fair bit of memory, the system starts swapping, the load
average hits the roof (upto 21) and response time etc. drop considerably.
 It has been suggested that I could tune the system to page instead of
swap with vmtune but that this may be tricky.

Any Ideas or experiences ???

Thanks in advance

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