hi, I got the memory report from glance and grid control host performance report. from those tools indicate the same number. looking fsflush for hp-ux..... regards ujang On Jan 21, 2008 2:17 PM, vnr1995 <vnr1995@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If this is a fresh installation, and if you have faced this problem > right away after being brought into production, I have few questions: > > How did you know that the OS is using 80 to 90 percent of the memory > is being used? Many commands dealing memory management are misleading: > for instance, prstat on solaris is downright misleading; tuning based > on prstat is downright suicidal. I don't know about hpux; on solaris, > one can get memory usage by interacting with kernel debugger, smth > like > echo "::memstat" | mdb -k > > There is another thing you need to look at: how frequently fsflush > daemon is being run? There is a kernel parameter (in solaris) that > dictates this frequency: autoup. Given you got 38 GB memory, try to > run the fsflush daemon less often, so that the paging activity gets > reduced. > > > > > > > On Jan 19, 2008 7:36 PM, Ujang Jaenudin <ujang.jaenudin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > folks, > > > > I have a machine (RAC configuration) 10.2.0.4 on HPUX - PARISC. > > in a node I have 38GB physical memory, 8 processors. > > the machine could not run with asynchronous IO, so I set io slave to > > 8, and dbwr to 1. > -- regards ujang "I believe that exchange rate volatility is a major threat to prosperity in the world today" Dr. Robert A. Mundell, Nobel Laureate 1999 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l