My (admittedly vague) understanding of this is that the memory remains
allocated until it is requested by another process. So even though top
does not show the memory as free, it is in fact available if a process
needs it.
This is just the way the Solaris (SVR4?) memory management works. So in
this case, the number top is providing is not accurate.
Tristan Lawrence
Globix Corporation
Tom Hartsook wrote:
>
> Help set me straight on the appropriate memory usage on Solaris. After I
> boot the machine and start the OracleApplicationServer, I have about 780
> meg memory remaining, as reported by top. The next morning after analog
> has run via cron, I have about 550 meg remaining.
>
> Please help me understand what happened with the 200 meg of memory. I am
> a Solaris novice, but thought it was strange the memory free as shown by
> top was reduced.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Tom Hartsook
> Oregon State Univ
>
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