help with freemem on Aix43

[shea4th at comcast.net]

Hi all,

Just wanted to put some closure on this, just in case someone else misinterprets
the vmstat output.  I was supposed to divide by 256 not 1024.

A humbled hobbit
-Grs-
Gregory R Shea
EMC Corporation
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From: shea4th at comcast.net 

Hi all,

I'm having some trouble with the freemem on an aix4.3 client  and need some help.
First I didn't install the OS, so vmstat in not installed.  I found nmon which gives a 'top'
like output as below:
$ ./nmon -s 1 -c 1
nmon v8a               Hostname=cbaix43  Refresh=0.0secs  09:44.46
Memory Use  Physical    Virtual    Paging pages/sec  In     Out
% Used        37.4%       6.0%      to Paging Space   0.0    0.0
% Free        62.6%      94.0%      to File System    0.0    0.0
MB Used       95.7MB     31.0MB    Page Scans         0.0
MB Free      160.3MB    481.0MB    Page Cycles        0.0
Total(MB)     256.0MB    512.0MB    Page Reclaim       0.0

I grab the output from the "MB Free" section and multiply the Physical (160.3) by 1024,
and then send a dummy vmstat like line to the freemem section as shown in the clientdata below:
client cbaix43.aix aix
[date]
Fri Jun 15 09:38:44 EDT 2007
[uname]
AIX cbaix43 3 4 009002194C00
[uptime]
  09:38AM   up 114 days,  10:33,  1 user,  load average: 0.03, 0.06, 0.08
...
...
[realmem]
realmem 262144 Amount of usable physical memory in Kbytes False
[freemem]
 0  0 0 162304   0   0   0   0    0   0 0 0 0 0  0 0  0
[swap]
Total Paging Space   Percent Used
      512MB               7%


The problem is this is what I'm seeing on the memory webpage for the client:
Fri Jun 15 09:38:44 EDT 2007 - Memory CRITICAL
   Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
 Physical    18446744073709551238M        256M18446744073709551469%
 Swap                 35M        512M          6%

 
Any ideas??
Thanks
-Grs-
Gregory R Shea
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