Hi Gert, I think you are seeing the bug 4751. gnome-system-monitor showing incorrect memory statistics. See http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4751 I think you must rely on prstat/vmstat for memory usage details until the above issue is fixed.
HTH, Krishnan On 07/20/09 17:58, Gert Vanthienen wrote: > L.S., > > I have just moved over to OpenSolaris from Linux (Ubuntu, SuSE) for doing my > regular (mainly Java and Scala) development work. Although the system seems > to work quite nicely, I do notice a much higher usage of RAM than with my > previous OS when running the same kind of workload. When looking at the > gnome system monitor, I now regularly exceed the 2GB of physical RAM > available while I only had that in Linux when I was really running multiple > instances of the ESB I'm working on or things like that. Even in an idle > state, the system uses over 1GB of RAM. > > Now, with OpenSolaris being more geared towards the server, I can imagine > there are services running in the background. Are there services that > could/should be enabled when using the system as a development workstation > instead of a server? Are there any other things I can do to get this issue > addressed? You probably need a lot more information, so just let me know > what it is you need to help me out... > > Thanks in advance, > > Gert >
