Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Does anybody know if there is any command in AIX 5L which shows memory usage in percentage other than svmon -F.

Also is changing these kernel parameters (maxclient% and maxperm%) enough to reduce memory usage to certain limit say below 80% or so to prevent unnecessary monitoring alerts..? (Although the memory is utilized purposefully by the OS for file cache it causes monitoring alerts generation)

Thanks in Advance

Ranjith
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Originally posted by: tony.evans

Fix the problem - which is the monitoring process - don't cripple AIX's memory use to avoid generating alerts.

If you have a real memory issue, then yes, tuning can correct it, but if you're asking how to stop AIX doing what it does well (memory management) so you can fall under some fake thresholds set in some monitoring product, you're trying to fix the wrong thing.
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Originally posted by: KentPerrier

You should be monitoring paging space utilization, not physical memory utilization. All modern UNIX operating systems will use all of the available memory to cache filesytems data, if the applications running are not using it. Memory utilization should always be in the high 90% range.
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