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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris 10 v245 Busy/Slow System Post 302338527 by Wez on Tuesday 28th of July 2009 08:02:59 AM
Old 07-28-2009
Thanks for the reply, the server has been up for 13 days so not very long.
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11:56am up 13 day(s), 11:35, 4 users, load average: 0.77, 0.72, 0.77
Its currently running Solaris 10 with the recommended updates, here is the showrev output.
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Hostname: **********
Hostid: **********
Release: 5.10
Kernel architecture: sun4u
Application architecture: sparc
Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems
Domain:
Kernel version: SunOS 5.10 Generic_118833-36
The server uses very little CPU as most of our application work is done in memory. The server has 8GB of physical memory and approx 8GB swap available.

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NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
462 blahblah 176G 169G 85% 88:35:59 13%
19 oracle 29G 29G 15% 4:10:03 0.9%
41 root 396M 124M 0.1% 3:15:24 0.5%
1 noaccess 193M 82M 0.0% 0:18:31 0.0%
1 smmsp 7632K 2016K 0.0% 0:00:01 0.0%
6 daemon 20M 11M 0.0% 0:00:02 0.0%


---------- Post updated at 01:02 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:18 PM ----------

Here is the output from "prstat -s size -n 50", it looks like each oracle process is eating memory Smilie

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PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
1819 oracle 1678M 1642M sleep 59 0 2:14:28 0.3% oracle/14
1817 oracle 1673M 1648M sleep 59 0 0:08:45 0.0% oracle/258
1821 oracle 1668M 1642M sleep 59 0 0:07:38 0.0% oracle/15
1830 oracle 1667M 1648M sleep 59 0 0:03:03 0.0% oracle/1
1827 oracle 1667M 1643M sleep 59 0 0:17:03 0.0% oracle/1
1823 oracle 1667M 1643M sleep 59 0 0:01:25 0.0% oracle/1
1970 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:02:49 0.0% oracle/1
1911 oracle 1666M 1647M sleep 59 0 0:00:20 0.0% oracle/1
3429 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:43:20 0.1% oracle/1
2940 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:00:41 0.0% oracle/1
3402 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:00:58 0.0% oracle/1
1984 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:12:37 0.1% oracle/1
1976 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:09:39 0.0% oracle/1
1972 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:11:04 0.0% oracle/1
1811 oracle 1666M 1642M sleep 59 0 0:14:16 0.0% oracle/1
1996 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:05:43 0.0% oracle/1
1992 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:09:57 0.0% oracle/1
25583 oracle 1666M 1648M sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.0% oracle/1
1962 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:06:13 0.0% oracle/1
1966 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:00:26 0.2% oracle/1
2012 oracle 1666M 1642M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% oracle/1
1836 oracle 1666M 1640M sleep 59 0 0:00:03 0.0% oracle/1
2780 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:00:43 0.0% oracle/1
17214 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:01:36 0.0% oracle/1
1974 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:11:19 0.0% oracle/1
3609 oracle 1666M 1643M sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.3% oracle/1
4533 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:05:43 0.0% oracle/1
2916 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:01:30 0.0% oracle/1
20923 oracle 1666M 1644M sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% oracle/1
1954 oracle 1666M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:06:49 0.0% oracle/1
2886 oracle 1666M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:03:45 0.0% oracle/1
1834 oracle 1666M 1636M sleep 59 0 0:00:01 0.0% oracle/1
1988 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:07:16 0.0% oracle/1
1986 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:06:20 0.0% oracle/1
1980 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:08:47 0.0% oracle/1
1978 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:11:27 0.0% oracle/1
1968 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:03:45 0.0% oracle/1
1964 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:04:39 0.1% oracle/1
1960 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:08:03 0.0% oracle/1
1958 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:03:53 0.0% oracle/1
3421 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:06:24 0.0% oracle/1
2910 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:01:17 0.0% oracle/1
2892 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:03:40 0.0% oracle/1
1994 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:10:50 0.0% oracle/1
1982 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:06:14 0.0% oracle/1
14376 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:07:52 0.0% oracle/1
1990 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:06:27 0.0% oracle/1
1956 oracle 1665M 1646M sleep 59 0 0:03:02 0.0% oracle/1
3906 oracle 1665M 1644M sleep 59 0 0:00:08 0.0% oracle/1
754 oracle 1665M 1645M sleep 59 0 0:01:41 0.0% oracle/1
Total: 529 processes, 2429 lwps, load averages: 0.61, 0.70, 0.77
 

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