On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:28:41PM +0200, Yahav Biran wrote:

> My application does from time to time swap. I can see it by monitoring it
> with vmstat command (si and so parameters).
> I would like to know why this swap activity was made (lack of memory or
> memory algorithm).

If swap is used it's because there's a memory shortage, so I don't
quite understand the question.

[Yahav Biran] I thought that a page can be flush to the disk if nobody is
using it for certain amount of time. In Solaris a page fault can happen not
only when you are lack of memory. Solaris allocate all its free memory to a
process buffer.


> Another question: it looks that the java processes are spawned to many
java
> processes, how one can monitor it.
> I tried to top the processes and then use ps -H but the process is
> disappearing until I catch it.

How short lived is the process? can you modify its code or execution
enviroment?

[Yahav Biran] I don't think I can, is there any way to take a process tree
snapshot like ps -H.
When viewing the top results, I can see few processes (java) that I own
them. When I ps -H it it's already gone.
Am I missing something? 
yahav


Cheers,
Muli


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