RE: Monitoring Memory on DYNIX

From: Gene Gurevich <g_u_r_e_v_i_c_h_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 12:40:42 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00337222.20010625125402@fatcity.com>

>
> thx...for me, I would tying the IBM
> SAs up and asking about everything they
> see or touch. I'm like that.

Ross,

I agree. Alas, I jumped into this issue a little late and everything has already been decided. So all I can do is react.

>
> You got me confused....they are *raising*
> BUFPCT b/c your *oracle* hit ratio is high
> enough? if so, that's reasonable, but I still
> would want to know about how SAS is acting,
> rather than "backing into" tuning it by
> saying oracle is doing ok.

Sorry, that was not "oracle" hit ratio but the filesystem cache ratio. Should have been more specific.

>
> the sar flags are fine. you might find some
> value in Sequent's version of top. it might
> even be loaded by default in your version.
>
> Also, try swap -[l|..] to look at swap....
>
> lastly, there is ALOT more to paging, etc
> than BUFPCT, but.....i am too freaking lazy
> to write about it now...nuff said to say
> worry alot more about the page OUTs than
> the page INs....nuff said....

Thanks again for your help

Gene

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