Quoting Mark Delany ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> At 08:35 AM 2/1/99 -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> >Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>Certainly you want to make sure you have sufficient memory. What did vmstat
> >>tell you about your paging?
> >
> >Specifically, what's the scan rate (the "sr" column)? According to
> >Solaris wizard Casper Dik, "The only reliable measurement of memory
> >shortage is the scan rate."
>
> I'm certainly comfortable bowing to Casper's knowledge. He is a boon to
> Solaris users to be sure (and a boon to Sun for that matter).
>
> I tend to look at paging simplistically in most cases. If you're paging out,
> then you're running short of memory, but one hopes that these:
Normal IO is using the page in/out mechanism. The SR rate is indeed the
only indicator for memory shortage.
Dirk
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