Did you say what version of Solaris 10 you were using? I had similar problems on Sol10 U2, booting a database. This involved first initializing the data files (a few Gb), then starting the server(s) which tried to allocate a large chunk of shared memory. This failed miserably since ZFS had gobbled up most memory. But with Sol10 U3, this problem had gone away and ARC memory was quickly released.
I found vmstat was convenient for a simple overview of available memory during the process. - Bjorn This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
