Re: How much memory is currently paged?

[Evan Harris <auctionitis@xxxxxxxxx>]

So what kind of ratio do you look for to between paging and faults -
do you have a rule of thumb as to what % of faults is acceptable ?

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:29 AM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Depends on the system (CPUs, total memory) the faulting numbers here
> could be acceptable but they are significant. Pool 2 (*BASE) is showing
> more than one in four pages as a fault that's not a great ratio. Pool 5
> is very poor with about 80% of pages faulting. Need more meory there
> almost certainly. Pool 4 is very good with 0.03% of pages faulting and
> that's with a LOT of paging!  The machine pool ration is poor also with
> almost seven of eight pages faulting but the numbers are pretty low
> overall there so not a huge problem.
>
> If it was me, I would be investigating more memory for this system or
> potentially fewer jobs running in pool 2 and 5.
>
> Of course additional performance work with the iDoctor tools or MPG's
> tools will help get more refined answers.
>
> I don't believe QTEMP is in there, that space is tracked differently as
> I recall.
>
>      - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis