Hello
While Alex is right that having more memory is
almost always a good thing, I am confused by
the results stated.
Unused processes always get paged out of main
memory (a good thing). Disk thrashing after
this point points to applications that are
memory intensive. Vanilla I/A ships with
plenty of memory resources to its job
under normal circumstances. When adding third
party applications, you will need to do some
basic system administration to verify the
system. Alex pointed you at vmstat to monitor
disk i/o. Another command that I use a lot
is "swap -s" which gives the total virtual memory usage.
Doing this before and after an application startup
gives a relative feel for the cost of that application.
Can you run this command and tell us what your
situation is ?
If you take away swap space and you are have quieted
down the disk drive then I suggest that you may
have an application (or several) that are no longer
running that you may not know about. Offline, Alex
suggests that you run a "ps" command before and
after the removal of swap space to verify no
lost processes.
Another reason for excess disk traffic are applications
that write to /tmp (logfiles etc.). You may
wish to do a "ls -lart /tmp" to see what the newest
files are in this directory and maybe by the name
determine the application that is using this.
>
>Three words:
>
>Buy more RAM.
>
>
>If vmstat reports lots of page faults, you need more RAM.
>
<snip>
>
> I have processes running on a AW51E (Ultra 30) that drop into
> virtual memory several days after boot. They then consume the
> machine with lots of disk thrashing. I've experimented with
> vfstab and /sbin/swapadd, and eliminated swap. This stops the
> disk thrashing, but it left me with a /tmp directory that is
> small and completely memory-based. I'm wondering if I should
> further modify /etc/vfstab, and mount /tmp to /dev/md/dsk/d1?
> If anyone has more expert knowledge on how to go about this,
> I'd appreciate the help.
>
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