topic Re: Memory managent: clarification in Operating System - HP-UX

Memory managent: clarification

affin — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:23:36 GMT

Dear Guru's,

I need a final clarification about HPUX's memory management.
The question is: How can I get the free (and used) available RAM of a system?
I used command such as swapinfo -tma, vmstat and also sam but the numbers showed are not so reliable.

Any suggestion will be very appreciated.

Thanx
Alessandro

Re: Memory managent: clarification

Steve Steel — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:26:55 GMT

Hi

Look at

ftp://eh:spear9@hprc.external.hp.com/memory.htm

There are so many goodies in there its like christmas

Steve Steel

Re: Memory managent: clarification

Peter Godron — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 04:31:31 GMT

Alessandro,
if you say the numbers shown are not so reliable, you must have a tool to know what the correct figures are, otherwise how do you know they are not correct?
You can find a number of prewritten specialist tools on the web, but the supplied tools swapinfo, vmstat and sam normally do the job sufficiently, as the figures for RAM free constantly change on a running system.
Regards

Re: Memory managent: clarification

affin — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:03:02 GMT

thanx all the:

dmesg | grep Phys

way is overall the faster and realiable way.

Re: Memory managent: clarification

affin — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 05:03:25 GMT