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- From: rriv@oural.inria.fr (Robert Riviere)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Paging spaces fill - How to fix?
- Message-ID: <39178@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:58:43 GMT
- References: <93008.151925RBNTJC@rohvm1.rohmhaas.com>
- Sender: news@sophia.inria.fr
- Organization: Cermics/Inria-Sophia Antipolis
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- >We had a strange problem yesterday on our 550, 128MB memory, 3 48-MB
- >paging disks.
- >
- >When we killed most processes (incl. the X-Server), lsps -a told us that
- >80-90% of each paging disk was being used.
- >
- >If we started a user program (CFD simulation), we'd get the message: KILLED.
- >
- >We had to reboot to "reclaim" paging space.
- >
- >Questions:
- > 1). Has anyone seen "leaky" behavior with the X-Server (I seem to remember
- > this from a recent thread)?
-
- What AIX version are you running ?
- In 3.1.5 we had lot of problems because of a -wm option of the Xserver,
- required for certains applications.
- The automounter was also eating swap space.
-
- In 3.2 all seems to be ok. (In 3.2.3 however the flag -wm seems to be again a
- problem...)
-
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- Robert Riviere
- (rriv@sophia.inria.fr) Tel: (33) 93.65.79.06
- CERMICS / INRIA Fax: (33) 93.65.77.40
- BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex
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