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[ILUG] [OT] Solaris memory usage

[ILUG] [OT] Solaris memory usage

Lars Hecking lhecking at nmrc.ucc.ie
Wed Apr 26 11:17:31 IST 2000


Donncha O Caoimh writes:
> Examing the output from "top" on a Sun box I noticed that all the swap
> space on it was being used..
> "Memory: 512M real, 8104K free, 512M swap in use"
> 
> I know Solaris likes swap but using all of the swap when the box isn't
> even busy? (there are only 15 httpd processes running..) 
 
 /bin/df -k /tmp. Check /tmp for huge (temp) files. And give the old
 tmpfs(7fs) man page a read :)

> Does Solaris still leak memory like the Apache httpd.conf says? I could
> boost max_requests up a bit if I was sure it was safe to do so..

 This comment may be slightly out of date. In any case, the installed
 patch cluster may fix this (or not :)

> Does anyone know the Solaris equivalent of the "free" command that'll
> list something like this:
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    
> cached
> Mem:        257028     252472       4556      31856      74208    
> 106208
> -/+ buffers/cache:      72056     184972
> Swap:       128484       3856     124628

 Nope, unfortunately. But you could try sdtprocess and do the maths :)





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