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Re: Avoiding memory paging with large data-set [message #6279 is a reply to message #6272]

Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00

todd
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Registered: February 1994

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In article <4nvvgn$7jc@fu-berlin.de>, marq@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Christian Marquardt) writes:
|> Hello,
|>
|> David Foster (foster@bial1.ucsd.edu) wrote:
|> : Hello all.
|>
|> : I have a question for those familiar with UNIX systems stuff. We
|> : are using SPARC 10s and 20s under Solaris 2.3, and often have to
|> : work with very large data-sets. Sometimes the operations go pretty
|>
|> [stuff deleted]
|>
|> : but the intermittency is strange. Any help in how to analyze
|> : the system's "state", including memory allocated and for which
|> : processes, would be greatly appreciated.
|>
|> apart from ps, theres the vmstat command, showing (e.g) paging activity
|> or swapping activity, every few seconds or so...
|>
|> Hope this helps.
|>
|> Chris Marquardt (marq@strat01.met.fu-berlin.de)
|>

There also exists and OpenWindows interface called proctool.
It seems to be a GUI for ps, vmstat and others of that ilk.
It even works for multi-processors. It's a pretty slick
tool. Try an Archie search for it. If you can't find it, let
me know and I'll see if I can dig up an anonymous ftp address
for you.
--

Todd Ratcliff | (310)825-3118
UCLA Geodynamics Research Group | todd@artemis.ess.ucla.edu
Dept. of Earth & Space Sciences | http://artemis.ess.ucla.edu/~todd

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		Re: Avoiding memory paging with large data-set By: sterner on Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00
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