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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!sleipnir.iaccess.com.au!news From: username@iaccess.com.au (Real Name) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: mystery page faults Date: 18 Jan 1996 23:57:49 GMT Organization: Company Name Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4dmmpt$g0k@sleipnir.iaccess.com.au> Reply-To: phil@iaccess.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: quest.iaccess.com.au X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:37212 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2058 Hi Guys, I have these mysterious page faults showing up. bash# vmstat -w 5 procs memory page disks faults cpu r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr wd0 wd1 in sy cs us sy id 0 0 0 0 12964 112 13 0 0 0 0 3 0 158 124 15 4 3 93 0 0 0 0 12864 122 9 0 0 0 0 11 0 258 240 26 1 6 93 0 0 0 0 12872 67 5 0 0 0 0 2 0 128 102 10 1 1 98 0 0 0 0 12676 33 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 208 76 9 0 1 98 0 0 0 0 12640 55 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 138 91 12 1 2 97 0 0 0 0 12580 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 115 68 5 0 1 99 0 0 0 0 12520 51 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 151 92 11 1 2 97 0 0 0 0 12892 22 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 138 61 8 0 1 99 1 0 0 0 12920 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 108 24 5 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 13388 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 164 14 3 0 2 98 0 0 0 0 13388 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 143 75 11 0 2 98 1 0 0 0 13116 727 90 0 0 0 0 2 0 194 718 95 42 14 45 0 0 0 0 13352 20 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 126 61 9 0 1 98 0 0 0 0 13352 25 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 160 73 15 0 2 98 0 0 0 0 13684 117 6 4 0 0 0 5 0 191 440 17 1 4 95 1 0 0 0 13152 55 0 0 0 0 0 27 0 507 100 27 2 11 87 0 0 0 0 13128 65 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 162 110 13 1 2 97 0 0 0 0 12644 242 18 0 0 0 0 6 0 180 258 33 2 5 93 1 0 0 0 12952 658 76 0 0 0 0 6 0 257 712 91 33 15 52 When ever I check swap space there is never any used. bash# pstat -s Device name 1K-blocks /dev/wd0b 33264 0 (1K-blocks) allocated, 33260 (1K-blocks) available Sometimes the page faults are very high. I have a pentium machine with 32 meg RAM, on board IDE (upgrading to PCI scsi adapter),IDE drive ( upgrading to scsi) running a name server, mail server, runIpAccounting. Anyone seen this before? Thanks in advance, Phil.