Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Page Space Problems Message-ID: <1991Mar17.185553.9181@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 17 Mar 91 18:55:53 GMT References: Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu In article bfls@cain.anu.edu.au (Barbara La Scala) writes: >32MB swap space is used, even though I'm not running any large programs. In >fact according to the output from ps, the only process which is using a >significant amount of memory is the swapper, which is using around 50% of >memory! About once a month I jump up and down about this. I called defect(ive) support, they told me "AIX does things a little differently than UNIX", and that the swapper proc was supposed to be ~6Mb on a 8Mb RAM / 32Mb paging machine. It's not a bug, it's a *feature* :-( Again, I repeat my plea for some IBM employee to come out of the woodwork and explain this: oiler> ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TT STAT TIME CMD root 0 0.0% 78% 7592 6376 - S 1:31 swapper root 1 0.1% 1% 164 120 - S 2:41 /etc/init root 514 0.0% 0% 12 8 - R 3994:08 kproc root 771 0.0% 0% 20 20 - S 0:05 kproc root 1028 0.1% 0% 16 16 - S 3:45 kproc root 1285 0.0% 0% 16 8 - S 0:00 kproc root 1685 0.0% 0% 84 28 - S 0:18 /etc/syncd 60 jet 1867 2.9% 5% 168 404 pts/0 S 0:01 -csh .... -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2120 Skate UNIX or bleed, boyo... (UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories).