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06-23-2000 04:45 AM
06-23-2000 04:45 AM
Reserve Swap Space
Is there anything else you can think of that I can do?
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06-23-2000 05:00 AM
06-23-2000 05:00 AM
Re: Reserve Swap Space
Pseudo swap is HP's solution for large memory customers who do not wish to
purchase a large amount of swap space. The justification for purchasing large
memory systems is to prevent paging and swapping, therefore, the argument
becomes "Why purchase a lot of swap space if the system is not expected to page
or swap?"
Pseudo swap is swap space which the operating systems recognizes, but in
reality it does not exist. Pseudo swap is make-believe swap space. It does not
exist in memory, it does not exist on disk, it does not exist anywhere.
However, the operating system does recognize it, which means more swap space
can be reserved than physically exists.
The purpose of pseudo swap is to allow more processes to run in memory, than
could be supported by the swap device(s). Swap devices refer to both device
swap or filesystem swap. It allows the operating system(specifically the kernel
variable swap_avail) to recognize more swap space, thereby allowing additional
processes to start when all of the physical swap has been reserved. By having
the operating system recognize more swap space than physically exists, large
memory customers can now operate without having to purchase large amounts of
swap space which they will most likely never use.
The size of pseudo swap is dependent on the amount of memory in the system.
Specifically, the size is 75% of physical memory. This means the swap_avail
variable will have an additional amount(75% of physical memory) added to its
content. This additional amount allows more processes to start when all of the
physical swap has been reserved.
Pseudo swap is enabled through the tunable kernel parameter called swapmem_on.
If the value for swapmem_on is 1, then psuedo swap is turned on or enabled. The
percentage of physical memory that pseudo swap adds to swap_avail is not a
tunable kernel parameter and is always 75%. This information is valid for all
versions of HP-UX 10.X and 11.0
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06-23-2000 05:02 AM
06-23-2000 05:02 AM
Re: Reserve Swap Space
You can create more swap space on your system and also modufy the kernel parameters as follows:
allocate_fs_swapmap=0
swapmem_on=1
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06-23-2000 06:50 AM
06-23-2000 06:50 AM
Re: Reserve Swap Space
Another possibility is with your network. I've seen firewalls that block large files from being downloaded. Maybe your network has some sort of limitation configured.
Has this file recently grown in size? If the ftp used to work, but, now fails since it is larger, there might be a limit set somewhere.
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06-23-2000 07:00 AM
06-23-2000 07:00 AM
Re: Reserve Swap Space
Use swapinfo to get a look at your swap space. If you are not nearing 100% of swap space reserved with no memory swap then you are unlikely to be experiencing a swap issue.