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From: jfh@greenber.austin.ibm.com (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Paging space problems
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Date: 7 Feb 91 17:28:52 GMT
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In article <36829@netnews.upenn.edu> ahsu@grad1.cis.upenn.edu (Andrew C Hsu) writes:
>I've been getting this problem on my RS6000 where I have to reboot the
>machine about once a week because the paging space gets low.  Currently
>I've installed 48Megs of paging space over 2 physical volumes.  Is there
>a way to reset the paging space with having to reboot?  And is this
>problem I'm having a bug with AIX3.1?

There were problems in the kernel (notably X-windows & hft's) involving
page space losage.  It sounds as though you have an old level of AIX v3
and need to upgrade.
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