The VMM maintains a logical list of free page frames that it uses to accommodate page faults. In most environments, the VMM must occasionally add to the free list by reassigning some page frames owned by running processes. The virtual-memory pages whose page frames are to be reassigned are selected by the VMM’s page-replacement algorithm. The VMM thresholds determine the number of frames reassigned. By default in AIX 6.1, and optionally in AIX 5.3 the LRU algorithm can either use lists or the page frame. table. Prior to AIX 5.3, the page frame. table method was the only method available. The list-based algorithm provides a list of pages to scan for each type of segment. You can disable the list-based LRU feature and enable the original physical-address-based scanning with the page_steal_method parameter of the vmo command. The default value for the page_steal_method parameter is 1, which means that the list-based LRU feature is enabled and lists are used to scan pages. If the page_steal_method parameter is set to 0, the physical-address-based scanning is used. The value for the page_steal_method parameter takes effect after a bosboot and reboot.