If you can provide some ::findleak details about the particular memory leak, perhaps someone can help. Zones do not leak memory by design.
-Steve On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:27:07PM +0200, AdinaKalin wrote: > Yes. I already read this sites. The question is why on global zone there > isn't a memory leak and on local zone there is ?! > > Steve Lawrence wrote: > > I recommend using libumem on the application. > > Some folks were nice enough to write about it. > > [1]http://blogs.sun.com/pnayak/entry/finding_memory_leaks_within_solaris > [2]http://blogs.sun.com/dlutz/entry/memory_leak_detection_with_libumem > > -Steve > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:09:11PM +0200, AdinaKalin wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm struggling with the following problem and I have no idea how to > solve it. > I'm testing an application which is running fine on a global zone,but > memory leaking when installed on a local zone. > > The local zone has its whole root and a very simple, basic configuration: > bash-3.00# zonecfg -z mdmMDMzone > zonecfg:mdmMDMzone> info > zonename: mdmMDMzone > zonepath: /mdmMDMzone > brand: native > autoboot: true > bootargs: > pool: > limitpriv: default,dtrace_proc,dtrace_user,proc_priocntl,proc_lock_memory > scheduling-class: FSS > ip-type: shared > net: > address: 192.168.109.14 > physical: e1000g0 > defrouter not specified > > One of the application processes, when started on global zone, has an > rss of about 5 GB ( prstat -s rss ) and it keeps this size to the end of > the test. If I stop the application on global zone and I start it on > local zone, the same process starts with the normal size ( 5gb on prstat > -s rss ) but is growing during the test ( I saw it 25GB on a server > with 32 gb RAM ) until is failing. I don't understand why is this > behavior and if the application has a memory leak, why I don't see it on > the > global zone. > > Any help is more than welcome!!! > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > zones-discuss mailing list > [3]zones-disc...@opensolaris.org > > > > > References > > Visible links > 1. http://blogs.sun.com/pnayak/entry/finding_memory_leaks_within_solaris > 2. http://blogs.sun.com/dlutz/entry/memory_leak_detection_with_libumem > 3. mailto:zones-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
