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Re: Memory usage

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Subject: Re: Memory usage
From: Sergio Cardona F <sergcafe@MAIL.VISIONTECH.COM.CO>
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 18:27:26 -0500
Organization: Vision Tech
Reply-to: sergcafe@visiontech.com.co
Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Hi All:

Thank a lot, for all yours suggestions.

Sergio Cardona.

Steve Francis wrote:
>
> UNIX uses all available memory, all the time.  Memory that is not grabbed by
> processes will be used as a file cache, so having very little free memory is
> normal and unavoidable (and a good thing, not a bad thing.)
>
> Your system shows very little swapping, so I would say it is not low on
> memory at all.  If you want more detailed information, go get a tool like
> monitor.
>
> Sergio Cardona F wrote:
>
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I need help, We have detected a rare (????) behavior with our machine:
> >
> > We have a Risc/6000  H50 with 2 processors and 1Gb RAM, with aix 4.3.2.
> > We have installed netview 5.1.1, the database has 26000 objects and the
> > ovwdb has configured its memory cache in 30000.
> > we have 11 background maps and 1 or 2 operators. the operators are
> > conected via a X Client.
> >
> > We had noticed that the memory was low ( the system had 512Mb RAM), when
> > We increased
> > the memory to 1Gb the  system has remained using the total amount of
> > memory.
> >
> > Antioquia@root:/>vmstat 3
> > kthr     memory             page              faults        cpu
> > ----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ -----------
> >  r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa
> >  0  1 155166   121   0   0   0   4   12   0 134  535 102  3  2 90  5
> >  0  2 155167   120   0   6   0  15   19   0 273 2274 387  8  2 86  4
> >  0  2 155167   155   0   0   0   3    4   0 258 1139 202  2  2 96  1
> >  0  2 155167   151   0   0   0   0    0   0 247  825 146  1  0 98  1
> >  0  2 155167   143   0   0   0   0    0   0 264 1313 217  3  2 95  0
> >  0  2 155169   120   0   1   0   0    0   0 274 1988 357  8  3 86  2
> >
> > Is this normal ?
> >
> > Is There a way to limit the number of memory used by NetView ?
> >
> > We are worried about the memory performance , because we need to install
> > Cisco Works 2000 and Nways manager in the same machine.
> >
> > Is this memory enough to support all software in the machine?
> >
> > Thanks and Regards,
> >
> > Sergio Cardona.

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