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Operating Systems Solaris Memory usage in Solaris - memory not freed? Post 302273988 by seg on Tuesday 6th of January 2009 11:06:09 AM
Old 01-06-2009
These commands will give you RSS/swap size for each process in memory; the prstat command will give you just the top few processes sorted by memory.
ps -elfy
prstat -s rss
 

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install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

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install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system SYNOPSIS
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