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From: accapadi@austin.ibm.com (Matt Accapadi)
Subject: Re: Q:vmstat, PVM
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In article <2ra6b4$lda@rc1.vub.ac.be>, Lacroix Marc <mlacroix@vub.ac.be> wrote:
>Matt Accapadi (accapadi@austin.ibm.com) wrote:
Sorry, but I didn't see anything that I had written in your post.

>I was once told that AIX, from the time it has started using paging space, will
> NEVER leave a large amount of free list : the system takes them back to 
>keep ready to distribute the memory  ???

Never say never.  If you have a lot of memory and your applications don't
need it, then AIX will leave a large amount on the free list. This is assuming
your applications aren't accessing large files.

>-> question to IBM-ers : what should we believe ???

Believe me!





