Any memory used by DataStage jobs is always returned to the OS when the jobs finish. This has nothing to do with DataStage, but with how UNIX works - once a process completes and logs out, any and all memory is released. It is unlikely that such a serious memory leak exists, particularly on AIX.
The AIX OS itself has some very tricky memory management attributes with it's various high and low water thresholds and the dynamic re-allocation of unused physical memory for disk I/O buffers and subsequent freeing up of those buffers on demand. Basically, the OS will attempt to use as much of the physical memory as it can, for as long as it can. If users don't need it, the OS will take it!
How are you measuring your memory usage?
RAM not getting released on Datastage server
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RAM not getting released on Datastage server
Thanks for the reply.
We are checking it using nmon utility on AIX.
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Santosh
We are checking it using nmon utility on AIX.
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Santosh
Which part of NMON are you using to determine memory usage?
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RAM not getting released on Datastage server
Hi,
We used the m part.. i.e teh memory utilization part to check RAM utilization.
And our jobs get aborted once RAM gets finished.
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Santosh
We used the m part.. i.e teh memory utilization part to check RAM utilization.
And our jobs get aborted once RAM gets finished.
Regards,
Santosh
The memory (M) page of NMON will show you some relevent information, but you need to know where to look and it does not give you process-based virtual memory usage details. A screenshot might help here, or the values for Min/maxperm, Min/maxfree, Pinned. But there is no direct correlation visible on this page that would support your assumption that a memory leak might exist in DS or the OS.
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