>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the following [1] issue with mdb's
> memstat dcmd? For some reason the values are incorrect on machines
> with lots (64 GB in this case) of RAM.
>
> Thanks for any insight,
> - Ryan
>
> [1]
>
> >Does anyone know if there are any known issues with mdb's "::memstat"
> >dcmd on Solaris 9? I am seeing some weird output on a machine with
> >64 GB of RAM and kernel revision 118558-02:
> >
> >$ mdb -k
> >Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix ip usba ptm cpc ipc random nfs ]
> >> ::memstat
> >Page Summary Pages MB %Tot
> >------------ ---------------- ---------------- ----
> >Kernel 400425 3128 5%
> >Anon 3785762 29576 47%
> >Exec and libs 13060 102 0%
> >Page cache 983088 7680 12%
> >Free (cachelist) 2873946 22452 36%
> >Free (freelist) 18446744073709550756 17592186044409 0%
> >
> >Total 8055421 62932
> >> ::quit
> >
> >I looked through the patch documentation for 113471/118558, and didn't see
> >any issues specifically related to this. I am currently using mdb patch
> >revision "-04":
> >
> >$ /usr/ccs/bin/what /bin/mdb
> >/bin/mdb:
> > SunOS 5.9 Generic 113471-04 Aug 2003
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >- Ryan
This is bug:
6174625 ::memstat should not show ridiculous amounts of free memory
Since you can't see the evaluations of bugs yet, I'll post this one:
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jwadams wrote:
The right answer is probably just adding a:
if (physmem < stats.ms_total)
physmem = stats.ms_total;
before we print out anything.
david.bustos at sun.com 10/5/04 23:01 GMT
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If you have time, this is a great example of a first simple bug fix
to get back into Solaris through OpenSolaris. If you want to take
it on, let me know and I'll be your sponsor.
-Mike
--
Mike Shapiro, Solaris Kernel Development. blogs.sun.com/mws/
