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Operating Systems Solaris Swap puzzle Post 302609953 by redstone on Tuesday 20th of March 2012 03:58:08 PM
Old 03-20-2012
Let me describe more detail on my server in order for better understanding.

This is one of the DB node in Oracle RAC which is an guest domains.

20G of physical memory is allocated to this domain.
8G + 25G of swap space as you can see from the swap -l command


As Jlliagre's request, I'm posting prstat and mdb command output.

Code:
# swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,2      16 16777200 16777200
/dev/zvol/dsk/swappool/swap2 256,1      16 50331632 50331632


# swap -s
total: 6713584k bytes allocated + 3409144k reserved = 10122728k used, 24978216k available



Code:
# prstat -Z
   PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP       
  1347 root      103M   63M sleep   59    0  49:01:38 1.8% orarootagent.bi/25
  1351 grid       85M   49M sleep   59    0  13:14:41 0.5% gipcd.bin/10
  1789 root       89M   47M sleep   59    0   8:40:17 0.3% orarootagent.bi/11
  1369 root       81M   44M sleep  159    -   7:19:33 0.3% osysmond.bin/11
  1395 grid      104M   60M sleep  100    -   6:23:39 0.2% ocssd.bin/28
  2276 oracle     96M   74M sleep   59    0   4:08:18 0.2% oraagent.bin/15
  1654 root      132M   88M sleep   59    0   3:15:51 0.1% crsd.bin/47
  1314 grid      103M   68M sleep   59    0   3:01:18 0.1% oraagent.bin/29
  1471 root       71M   35M sleep   59    0   3:00:18 0.1% octssd.bin/12
   711 root      153M  115M sleep   59    0   2:32:56 0.1% ohasd.bin/35
  2356 oracle   8410M 2848M sleep   59    0   3:11:19 0.1% oracle/1
  1794 grid      104M   78M sleep   59    0   2:23:41 0.1% oraagent.bin/21
     5 root        0K    0K sleep   99  -20   1:23:15 0.1% zpool-rpool/166
  1612 grid      477M  296M sleep   59    0   2:30:00 0.1% oracle/1
  2362 oracle   8411M 2853M sleep  101    -   1:22:00 0.0% oracle/1
  2366 oracle   8411M 2849M sleep  101    -   1:22:43 0.0% oracle/1
  1406 root      149M   43M sleep  159    -   1:21:22 0.0% ologgerd/7
  1485 grid       83M   47M sleep   59    0   1:14:26 0.0% evmd.bin/18
  1614 grid      474M  289M sleep   59    0   1:01:04 0.0% oracle/1
  1618 grid      479M  284M sleep  101    -   0:57:45 0.0% oracle/1
  1382 root       75M   33M sleep  100    -   0:45:50 0.0% cssdagent/23
ZONEID    NPROC  SWAP   RSS MEMORY      TIME  CPU ZONE                        
     0      163 9871M   10G    50% 126:52:51 4.7% global

Total: 163 processes, 1076 lwps, load averages: 0.91, 0.93, 0.91


Code:
# echo ::memstat | mdb -k 
Page Summary                Pages                MB  %Tot
------------     ----------------  ----------------  ----
Kernel                     340174              2657   13%
ZFS File Data              913853              7139   36%
Anon                       841128              6571   33%
Exec and libs               66941               522    3%
Page cache                  16344               127    1%
Free (cachelist)             9857                77    0%
Free (freelist)            380902              2975   15%

Total                     2569199             20071
Physical                  2553055             19945

I still don't quite get what allocated and reserved really means from "swap -s" command.

Thanks.

---------- Post updated at 11:58 AM ---------- Previous update was at 11:54 AM ----------

It's not easy to read the output of some commands as the layout was changed. I wish I could post them with the original format.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment That is why I just put code tags on your output. Please do that in the future

Last edited by jim mcnamara; 03-20-2012 at 06:02 PM..
 

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