Hi, Paging on one of my boxes has been bloating up while physical memory is still available.
Avg Phys Mem - 85% (of 96GB)
Avg Paging: - 55% (of 24GB)
Last week, the box ran out of paging while physical memory still reported 84% usage. Any idea what I'm missing out here?
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# svmon -G
size inuse free pin virtual mmode
memory 25165824 20297380 4868444 1692023 21262591 Ded
pg space 6291456 3429359
work pers clnt other
pin 927495 0 0 764528
in use 19824643 0 472737
PageSize PoolSize inuse pgsp pin virtual
s 4 KB - 1790004 415151 975159 1707551
m 64 KB - 1156711 188388 44804 1222190
---------- Post updated at 04:45 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:36 PM ----------
P.S. It's a DB server.
DB has been moved to secondary node for now.. here's a few more #s:
# vmstat -vs
5171723696 total address trans. faults
7729177 page ins
15206379 page outs
360343 paging space page ins
883997 paging space page outs
0 total reclaims
3003046207 zero filled pages faults
72777 executable filled pages faults
15551550 pages examined by clock
0 revolutions of the clock hand
6490478 pages freed by the clock
4487540 backtracks
1222201 free frame waits
0 extend XPT waits
1282211 pending I/O waits
14715327 start I/Os
8489466 iodones
4814472187 cpu context switches
1334053939 device interrupts
87866885 software interrupts
1599354307 decrementer interrupts
40109 mpc-sent interrupts
40109 mpc-received interrupts
557917974 phantom interrupts
0 traps
61863738225 syscalls
25165824 memory pages
24386800 lruable pages
19325298 free pages
5 memory pools
1689051 pinned pages
80.0 maxpin percentage
3.0 minperm percentage
90.0 maxperm percentage
1.7 numperm percentage
415243 file pages
0.0 compressed percentage
0 compressed pages
1.7 numclient percentage
90.0 maxclient percentage
415243 client pages
0 remote pageouts scheduled
31352 pending disk I/Os blocked with no pbuf
24185 paging space I/Os blocked with no psbuf
2228 filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
0 client filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
2981 external pager filesystem I/Os blocked with no fsbuf
21.6 percentage of memory used for computational pages