rp3410 HPUX11i and memory problem

[njia_1]

Hi Patrick

Thanks for your advice here is the output, but my question is if I do have 6G RAM why HPUX only uses about 4G ?

swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT TART/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 4096 614 3482 15% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 3482 -3482
memory 4410 2972 1438 67%
total 8506 7068 1438 83% - 0 -

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT TART/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 4096 614 3482 15% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
reserve - 3482 -3482
memory 4410 2972 1438 67%
total 8506 7068 1438 83% - 0 -

The amount of RAM that your machine has does not have anything to do with the 'dev' line in swapinfo. That is merely the amount of device swap space that you have configured.

How are you coming up with the conclusion that your system is only using 4GB of RAM?

Do you have Glance installed on the system? If so, what does it show for amount of memory used?

Your swapinfo command shows that there are about 3.5GB of swap space reserved by processes. That is not bad. The info also shows that you currently have about 614MB of your device swap space used. That does appear to be less than it was earlier.

[njia_1]

Hi Patrick

memory 4410 2972 1438 67%

I think this tells me that HPUX only used 4410 MB of memory but actually I have 6G.

[Patrick Wallek]

No! What the memory line is telling you is that you are using 4410 MB of RAM for pseudo-swap since the swapmem_on kernel parameter is set to 1.

The memory line does NOT tell you how much of your total RAM you are using.

[njia_1]

Hi Patrick,

thanks for clearifing it for me and I was confused by that number. top show the same number, I think that is the same thing.

So, that rp3410 just does not have enough memory.

thanks
Nan