SUNOS vmstat memory fre - decrease

SUNOS vmstat memory fre - decrease

Post by Chance You » Fri, 09 Aug 1996 04:00:00



        My SUN Sparc 20 has 96MByte. The field of 'vmstat memory fre'
        is about 7xxxx Kbytes after booting. But this value decrease
        to 3xxx Kbytes after 48 hours. Is it correct ??
        There is no any big process running. I check it by 'ps -aux'
        This SUN missing 70MB RAM ??


 
 
 

1. vmstat - free list (fre)

Hi,

Currently vmstat shows:

 r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa
 0  0 52719  3433   0   0   0  11   31   0 703  362 271  5  6 86  3
 0  2 52719  3432   0   0   0   0    0   0 349  390 133  0  0 99  0
 0  2 52719  3433   0   0   0   0    0   0 349  410 157  1  2 98  0
 0  2 52719  3432   0   0   0   0    0   0 347  428 150  0  2 98  0
 0  2 52719  3432   0   0   0   0    0   0 350  176 138  0  1 99  0
 0  2 52719  3432   0   0   0   0    0   0 355  662 241  1  1 98  0

The size of the free list (fre) is not very large (3433) compared to what we
had a week ago (44875):

 r  b   avm   fre  re  pi  po  fr   sr  cy  in   sy  cs us sy id wa
 0  0 53710 44875   0   0   0  12   32   0 1209 2349 397  4  8 85  3
 0  2 53754 44821   0   0   0   0    0   0 348  329 126  0  0 99  0
 0  2 53755 44821   0   0   0   0    0   0 349  419 152  1  2 98  0
 0  2 53755 44821   0   0   0   0    0   0 347  597 130  0  0 99  0
 0  2 53755 44820   0   0   0   0    0   0 352  502 165  0  2 97  0
 0  2 53755 44820   0   0   0   0    0   0 352  187 159  0  0 99  0
 0  2 53755 44821   0   0   0   0    0   0 358  475 194  1  2 98  0

It seems that a process is using a lot of memory pages. How can I figure out
which proces(ses) is responsible for this. How do these numbers related to
physical and virtual memory. We have 512 MB physical memory and 512 MB
Paging Space defined.

Regards,

Louis Banens

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