Page Space Problems

[J. Eric Townsend]

In article <BFLS.91Mar14152256 at cain.anu.edu.au> bfls at cain.anu.edu.au (Barbara La Scala) writes:
>32MB swap space is used, even though I'm not running any large programs.  In
>fact according to the output from ps, the only process which is using a
>significant amount of memory is the swapper, which is using around 50% of
>memory!

About once a month I jump up and down about this.

I called defect(ive) support, they told me "AIX does things a little
differently than UNIX", and that the swapper proc was supposed to be
~6Mb on a 8Mb RAM / 32Mb paging machine.

It's not a bug, it's a *feature* :-(

Again, I repeat my plea for some IBM employee to come out of the woodwork
and explain this:

oiler> ps aux
    USER   PID %CPU %MEM    SZ   RSS     TT STAT  TIME CMD
    root     0 0.0%  78%  7592  6376      -    S  1:31 swapper
    root     1 0.1%   1%   164   120      -    S  2:41 /etc/init 
    root   514 0.0%   0%    12     8      -    R 3994:08 kproc
    root   771 0.0%   0%    20    20      -    S  0:05 kproc
    root  1028 0.1%   0%    16    16      -    S  3:45 kproc
    root  1285 0.0%   0%    16     8      -    S  0:00 kproc
    root  1685 0.0%   0%    84    28      -    S  0:18 /etc/syncd 60 
     jet  1867 2.9%   5%   168   404  pts/0    S  0:01 -csh 
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