Thanx goes to
Casper Dik
Hans Schaechl
Richard Smith
Ric Anderson
for pointing out my obvious mistakes (blocks, not bytes) and giving additional
useful info.
To Summarise:
vmstat provides averages over time and may give aproximations of current system
status when run with "interval" parameters.
swap -l and swap -s together give current status
Watch vmstat "sr" (Scanrate) - if high numbers - eg over 200 then it is
searching for additional ram.
iostat -xn 30 to report disk activity, or iostat -xtc for a slightly different
format
/usr/proc/bin/pmap -x pid give process resident memory size, but not swapped
size. See man pmap for help on this and the other /proc tools.
Read Articles by Adrian and his peers at
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-07-1998/swol-07-perf.html
Priority paging tries to prevent pages being stolen from memory through the page
scanner if they belong to processes private memory. Under these circumstances
the page scanner first tries to free memory be just stealing pages from the
filesystem caches. It can be enabled in Solaris 2.6 (after at least having
kernel patch level 105181-13 applied) by adding this line to /etc/system:
set priority_paging=1
Adding up the RSS colum values are not usefull because these values include both
Private and shared memory (So you may by adding the same memory pages multiple
times for different processes)
My solution:
I need to monitor some more now that I know what I'm looking at. Th sr column
varies a lot, idle some times, high at other times, but maybe not high enough to
indicate an immediate memory shortage.
iostat indicates one disk with slow seek latency... this may point at a possible
problem.
My Original Question:
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Hi,
I need to make sense from these numbers.
# swap -l ; vmstat
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 32,1 16 4194272 3178256
procs memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 m0 m1 m2 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 21984 27104 7 74 552 101 586 0 122 0 2 7 4 447 2013 661 2 2 96
The first two lines (output from swap -l) seems to indicate that aproximately 1
Gb is swapped.
The last line seems to indicate that 2 Gb is swapped.
The system has got 4 Gb Swap space and a total of 1.5 Gb physical RAM.
The system is very slow.
I want to try and find out what process(es) is(are) actually swapping so much.
More-over: If I sum the "top" process data for the first 40 processes, sorted
by size, I get a total of 7.7Gb for the process data. The total size of
"Resident" parts are 6.8Gb
These numbers don't make sense to me. Something has got to be wrong!
for what it's worth, This is Solaris:
# uname -rsv
SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-20
Any ideas?
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_Johan
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