Topic: nmon

• A first performance look on AIX: vmstat, svmon, topas, nmon, and paging space

  AIX's virtual memory figures (avm, computational vs. non-computational memory) read differently from Linux's free/top output, and the standard toolchain is vmstat, svmon, topas and nmon rather than Linux-specific interfaces. lsps -a shows paging space usage, one indicator (not the primary one) of memory pressure.

  article · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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