RAM paging in AIX Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting

RAM paging in AIX

The lsps -a command is used in the IBM AIX Unix dialect to display the swap usage for a server.

root> lsps –a

Page Space Physical Volume Volume Group Size %Used Active Auto

paging00 hdisk3 maxvg 40MB 0 no no
hd6 hdisk0 rootvg 2048MB 3 yes yes

Also note that the glance utility is very useful for monitoring RAM memory and swapping activity. Please refer to the discussion of glance later in this chapter for a complete description if using glance to monitor RAM memory.

The above is an excerpt from the "Oracle9i UNIX Administration Handbook" by Oracle press, authored by Donald K. Burleson.

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