7.6 UX Paging

The UX Paging object provides counters for monitoring the paging activity on UNIX systems.

These counters do not accept individual instances; all counter use the _Total instance. For example, to monitor the number of pages scanned per second, type one of the following:

UX Paging|Scanned Pages/s|_Total
UX Paging|Scanned Pages/s

The following table describes the counters for the UX Paging object.

Counter Name

Description

Platforms

Page-out Requests/s

Number of page-out requests per second. For all platforms, specify _Total as the instance.

  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Solaris

Page-out KBytes/s

Number of KBs paged-out per second. For all platforms, specify _Total as the instance.

  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Linux
  • Solaris

Page-in Requests/s

Number of page-in requests per second. For all platforms, specify _Total as the instance.

  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Solaris

Page-in KBytes/s

Number of KBs paged-in per second. For all platforms, specify _Total as the instance.

  • AIX
  • HP-UX
  • Linux
  • Solaris

Scanned Pages/s

Number of pages scanned per second. For both platforms, specify _Total as the instance.

  • AIX
  • Solaris

Page Faults on Copy‑on‑Write/s

Number of page faults per second caused by copy-on-write operations. Specify _Total as the instance.

Solaris

Page Faults on Address Translation/s

Number of page faults per second caused by address translations. Specify _Total as the instance.

Solaris

Page Faults on Software Lock/s

Number of page faults per second caused by software locks. Specify _Total as the instance.

Solaris