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.

2. 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