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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Paging space problems
Message-ID: <19044@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 9 Feb 91 17:25:04 GMT
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Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II)
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In article <5170@awdprime.UUCP> robin@batcomp.austin.ibm.com (Robin D. Wilson) writes:
>At 3001 update levels and below, there was a problem with paging space on 
>machines that used the hft device (like the large color monitor).  This 
>problem is mostly corrected in 3002, but not completely solved until the
>3003 update.  3003 should be available soon, so I suggest that you wait it
>out, and just reboot the machine frequently.

Or you could avoid unnecessarily killing the X server, which causes the
loss of quite a few pages at a whack.  That was the biggest page sucker
that I was ever aware of.
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