> Is there a way to release swap without reboot a server???, on anyone 
> solaris version can i do that??

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "release swap" (I can think of a
couple of different possibilities) but I'll take a guess.  Can you
provide some more details?  (output of swap -l, swap -s, and uname -a
may be helpful also).

Under normal circumstances, the majority amount of virtual memory in use
on a machine is held by one or more applications.  Terminating those
applications will release the memory.  Rebooting helps because it
terminates all applications.

In addition, you can add additional swap file locations on the fly with
'swap -a <filename>', which while not releasing swap will provide more
so that more swap can be allocated by applications.

'ps', 'prstat', and 'top' are all handy for beginning your investigation
into which applications have allocated how much memory.

-- 
Darren Dunham                                           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
         < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. >
_______________________________________________
Solaris-Users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users

Reply via email to