[rescue] rescue Digest, Vol 30, Issue 42

[Ron Wickersham]

> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:32:07 -0400
> From: patrick at mail.zill.net (Patrick Giagnocavo)
> Subject: [rescue] a beef about Solaris 10
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>
> Each zone runs a separate copy of the svc.startd process.  This
> process handles the SMF stuff that lets you enable and disable
> services, and must always be running.
>
> It is 7MB RSS in size.  So on $system with 1GB RAM, and 5 zones +
> global zone, I am spending 35MB RAM when I just don't need it.
>
> What the bleepity-bleep do you need 7MB RAM for to monitor 54
> processes (on my machine)?  If one of their programmers had hocked up
> a Perl monstrosity it wouldn't take that much RAM....
>
> --Patrick

hi Patrick,

i get the digest version so this may have been commented on...

here's what i get on my box with nine zones:

  PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP

27010 root       10M 2672K sleep   59    0   0:04:13 0.0% svc.startd/12
  797 root     9488K 1304K sleep   59    0   0:04:52 0.0% svc.startd/12
  763 root     9432K 1096K sleep   59    0   0:05:06 0.0% svc.startd/13
  839 root     9488K 1224K sleep   59    0   0:04:51 0.0% svc.startd/12
  750 root     9424K 1416K sleep   59    0   0:05:09 0.0% svc.startd/13
  880 root     9560K 1216K sleep   59    0   0:04:55 0.0% svc.startd/12
  840 root     9432K 1208K sleep   59    0   0:04:53 0.0% svc.startd/12
  741 root     9856K  944K sleep   59    0   0:05:05 0.0% svc.startd/12
    7 root     8136K  840K sleep   59    0   0:05:03 0.0% svc.startd/13
  882 root     7880K  952K sleep   59    0   0:01:28 0.0% svc.configd/14
27012 root     9200K 4712K sleep   59    0   0:01:17 0.0% svc.configd/12
  844 root     7832K  912K sleep   59    0   0:01:29 0.0% svc.configd/15

Total: 453 processes, 1402 lwps, load averages: 0.23, 0.21, 0.18

could you comment on prstat showing RSS collumn less that however you
monitored the size.  and also what is the svc.configd which has one
instance that is 5M?

-ron