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Operating Systems Solaris how to get the more memory free space (see memory free column) Post 302309184 by incredible on Tuesday 21st of April 2009 09:34:19 AM
Old 04-21-2009
As long as your assigned swap is equal or more than your physical RAM, its safe..
I cant assist you without much info..
1.Use mkfile to create a file suitable for a local swap area. For example, to create a 1GB swap file:

/usr/sbin/mkfile 1024m /swapwhere /swap is the name of the file to be used as swap space. Units for the size can be kilobytes (k), blocks (b), or megabytes (m).

2.Tell the system to start using the file as swap:

/usr/sbin/swap -a /swapUse

swap -l to verify that the swap file has been activated.

Put an entry in /etc/vfstab also.

for your reading
BigAdmin Submitted Article: Impact of Swap Space on System Performance for the Solaris 9 and 10 OS
 

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FREE(1) 							   User Commands							   FREE(1)

NAME
free - Display amount of free and used memory in the system SYNOPSIS
free [options] DESCRIPTION
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel. The shared memory column should be ignored; it is obsolete. OPTIONS
-b, --bytes Display the amount of memory in bytes. -k, --kilo Display the amount of memory in kilobytes. This is the default. -m, --mega Display the amount of memory in megabytes. -g, --giga Display the amount of memory in gigabytes. --tera Display the amount of memory in terabytes. -h, --human Show all output fields automatically scaled to shortest three digit unit and display the units of print out. Following units are used. B = bytes K = kilos M = megas G = gigas T = teras If unit is missing, and you have petabyte of RAM or swap, the number is in terabytes and columns might not be aligned with header. -c, --count count Display the result count times. Requires the -s option. -l, --lohi Show detailed low and high memory statistics. -o, --old Display the output in old format, the only difference being this option will disable the display of the "buffer adjusted" line. -s, --seconds seconds Continuously display the result delay seconds apart. You may actually specify any floating point number for delay, usleep(3) is used for microsecond resolution delay times. --si Use power of 1000 not 1024. -t, --total Display a line showing the column totals. --help Print help. -V, --version Display version information. FILES
/proc/meminfo memory information SEE ALSO
ps(1), slabtop(1), top(1), vmstat(8). AUTHORS
Written by Brian Edmonds. REPORTING BUGS
Please send bug reports to <procps@freelists.org> procps-ng September 2011 FREE(1)
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