Swap Space on IBM AIX
To find out how much swap space has been allocated and is currently being used, use the /usr/sbin/pstat -s command:
To find out how much swap space is in use while you are running TotalView:
1. Start TotalView with a large executable:
totalview executable
Press Ctrl+Z to suspend TotalView.
1. Use the following command to see how much swap space TotalView is using:
ps u
For example, in this case the value in the SZ column is 5476 KB:
USER PID %CPU %MEM SZ RSS TTY ...
smith 15080 0.0 6.0 5476 547 pts/1 ...
To add swap space, use the AIX system management tool, smit. Use the following path through the smit menus:
System Storage Management > Logical Volume Manager >
Paging Space
