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[AlbertLi]

I check memory size by using vmstat, but I don't know how to read that.

memory
avm free
460711 125155

Please help and thanks a lot

br.
Albert

[Raj D.]

Albert,

Which memory are you looking for, vmstat shows virtual memory statistics only.

Use glance insted to see physical memory usage,

Cheers,
Raj,

[Sunny Jaisinghani · Accepted solution]

Hi Albert,

memory : Information about the usage of virtual and real memory. Virtual pages are considered active if they belong to processes that are running or have run in the last 20 seconds.

avm : Active virtual pages

free : Size of the free list

For more info refer this link:

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90680/vmstat.1.html

Regards
Sunny

[AlbertLi]

Hi:

Thanks a lot your response.

We are trying to compare the memory utilization of four HP Servers.

Any suggestion on what command should we use ? (vmstat or top) as we do not have HP Glance.

How to inteprete the output of vmstat and top ? Any reference document that we can read ?

Thanks !
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Is the figure displayed by vmstat output are in bytes or K-bytes?

[Sunny Jaisinghani]

Hi

U may view the man pages of the vmstat and top command and use them as per your requirement.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60105/vmstat.1.html

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60105/top.1.html

i would suggest you to use vmstat. However glance is the best utility to use.

Please also read:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33 on how to reward any useful answers given to your questions.

[Jaime Bolanos Rojas.]

Albert,

Also there is a trial version for Glance, is very usefull and it will give you the oportunity to use for quite a few days,

http://openview.hp.com/products/gplus/download.html

Regards,

Jaime.