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Operating Systems Solaris Memory usage, free and used, using sar, top and vmstat in Solaris zone/container Post 302444625 by jlliagre on Thursday 12th of August 2010 09:34:01 AM
Old 08-12-2010
"rcapstat" and "prstat -Z" might help understanding your memory usage.

To know what is your page size, you simply run the "pagesize" command.
 

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pagesize(1)							   User Commands						       pagesize(1)

NAME
pagesize - display the size or sizes of a page of memory SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/pagesize [-a] DESCRIPTION
The pagesize utility prints the default size of a page of memory in bytes, as returned by getpagesize(3C). This program is useful in con- structing portable shell scripts. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Prints out all possible hardware address translation sizes supported by the system. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ppgsz(1), getpagesize(3C), getpagesizes(3C), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 4 May 2001 pagesize(1)
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