264IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
CPU: The majority of CPU cycles will be dedicated to actually running applications,
instead of memory management.
From this, the overall point to keep in mind is that the performance impact of virtual memory is
minimal when it is used as little as possible.
The primary determinant of good virtual memory subsystem performance is having enough
RAM. Next in line (but much lower in relative importance) are sufficient disk I/O and CPU
capacity. However, these resources do little to help the virtual memory subsystem
performance (although they obviously can play a major role in ...
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