On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Jesse Lehman <jesseblehman at gmail.com>wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. You're right, these apps aren't using as much RAM as > I thought. However, something is - and it won't give it up without a fight. > To find out how much of memory the kernel is using: echo "::kmastat ! grep Total"| mdb -k (run as root) The above will give you a break-down, including which portion of that is ZFS. swap space and paging are two different things. swap space is virtual memory. Some of it is backed by RAM, some of it is backed by a paging file. So the terms is confusing. Paging is when programs can't find pages to live in RAM and get PAGED out to ram. swap -l will tell you home many pages is stored in your swap partition, eg virtual memory which is backed by the swap device. (take size minus free) Also look at overall memory usage, including kernel, ZFS and apps: echo "::memstat"| mdb -k Cheers, _hartz -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke Afrikaanse Stap Website: http://www.bloukous.co.za My blog: http://initialprogramload.blogspot.com ICQ = 193944626, YahooIM = johan_hartzenberg, GoogleTalk = jhartzen at gmail.com, AIM = JohanHartzenberg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080914/255de97e/attachment.html>
