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From: geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: PAging space useage on AIX (was Re: tcsh for RISC6000, AIX 3.1?)
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.045350.29617@edm.uucp>
Date: 24 Sep 90 04:53:50 GMT
References: <229@rufus.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems inc.
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From article <229@rufus.UUCP>, by drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com:
> 
> This is issued when paging space on disk is very full.  If paging space
							  ^^
> gets incredibly full, AIX starts sending SIGKILL to processes that are using


Shouldn't you change that if to a when. AIX 3.1 seems incredibly adept at 
using paging space. After a fresh boot of a system that has 32 Mbytes of 
paging space and 16 Mbyte of memory I run lsps -a and am told
that 53 % of paging space is in use. Add to this the number of times when
I've seen warning of low paging space messages on the console when there 
are only a couple of user processes running and I'm led to believe that
AIX has an incredible appetite for paging space.

> 
> Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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Geoff Coleman
Unexsys Systems

geoff@edm