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Operating Systems Solaris Problem with Swap consumption Post 302505227 by sboots on Wednesday 16th of March 2011 01:02:09 PM
Old 03-16-2011
Try to use dtrace to see what is eating up your swap space. You can find some pretty good dtrace scripts here that will help you figure it out.

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libdtrace(3LIB) 						Interface Libraries						   libdtrace(3LIB)

NAME
libdtrace - DTrace dynamic tracing software library DESCRIPTION
Functions in this library define the interface for interacting with the DTrace dynamic tracing software, including the D language compiler and facilities for enabling probes and consuming trace data. INTERFACES
The interfaces provided by libdtrace.so.1 are currently private to the implementation of the Solaris system and DTrace subsystem and are subject to change at any time without notice. Applications using these interfaces might fail to run on future releases. Refer to the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide for a description of the public documented interfaces available for the DTrace facility. FILES
/usr/lib/libdtrace.so.1 shared object /usr/lib/64/libdtrace.so.1 64-bit shared object ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWdtrc | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Private | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |Unsafe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
dtrace(1M), attributes(5), dtrace(7D) Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide SunOS 5.10 17 Sep 2003 libdtrace(3LIB)
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