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  • 1.  Free Memory

    Posted Tue October 16, 2007 11:56 AM

    Originally posted by: ejk67


    I've been working with a script to show the amount of free memory on a system - vmstat 1 2 | awk 'NR==7 { print $4 }'

    The script is returning the amount of 4K pages that are remaining on the free list.

    If I take this number times 4K is this truly the amount of free memory left on the system or do I need to do something else to find free memory on AIX?
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  • 2.  Re: Free Memory

    Posted Tue October 16, 2007 01:07 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    That is the amount of free memory in your system.
    Have you try Nmon to monitor your system?
    http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/nmon

    Regards,
    Leo
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  • 3.  Re: Free Memory

    Posted Tue October 16, 2007 08:20 PM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Try svmon -G. The free column gives the phy free mem
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