[SunHELP] Free Memory

[mariappan balu]

Thanks Sebastien.

But I see only a memconf pacakage in the site. did u mean the same package.


>From: DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR <Sebastien.DAUBIGNE at sema.fr>
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: RE: [SunHELP] Free Memory
>Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:13:20 +0100
>
>Be aware that Solaris 2.x will use every little available physical memory
>for file-system cache. This space is freed up by the page scanner each
>time free memory falls under "lotsfree" (or "cachefree" if priority paging
>is
>enabled on Solaris 2.6).
>
>I would recommend you RMCmem package (available at sunfreeware.com),
>which reports physical memory usage :
>
># prtmem
>Total memory:           18122 Megabytes
>Kernel Memory:            803 Megabytes
>Application:             2813 Megabytes
>Executable & libs:         56 Megabytes
>File Cache:             12009 Megabytes
>Free, file cache:         257 Megabytes
>Free, free:              2188 Megabytes
>
>
>Here we have 12 G used for file-system cache. Note that this space could be
>given back to applications if they ask fo it.
>
>---
>Sebastien DAUBIGNE
>sebastien.daubigne at sema.fr <mailto:sebastien.daubigne at sema.fr>  - (+33)
>(0)5.57.26.56.36
>Sema Global Services - AFM/DW/Pessac
>
>	-----Message d'origine-----
>	De:	mariappan balu [SMTP:mariappan_b at hotmail.com]
>	Date:	jeudi 11 octobre 2001 02:59
>	:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>	Objet:	[SunHELP] Free Memory
>
>	Hi all,
>
>	I have a E420R server with 4G memory. when i check for the free
>memory it
>	always gives me a number which in no way matching the memory used by
>all the
>	processes running at that time. what I meant is that the memory
>usage shown
>	by the system is much more than that being used by the processes at
>that
>	time.
>
>	if i reboot the server, it seems to be fine but after a couple of
>days, i'm
>	running into the same issue.
>
>	Now the million $ question is "what happened to the rest of the
>memory?"
>
>	any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>	Thanks,
>	Mari
>
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