04-28-2018
If I understand your question correctly, you are asking for an explanation of Solaris memory manager. You'd better ask Oracle that question because you are talking about Solaris kernel internals.
The operating system kernel has no reason to kick a process's memory set out of real memory until another process needs to use that real memory. Why would the kernel page out part or all of a memory set without a reason only to find that the next process to run needs it paged back in?
Therefore, it's quite normal for free memory to be low compared to actual installed real memory after the system has been running for a while. Don't worry about it unless you have a reason to.
Last edited by hicksd8; 04-28-2018 at 12:03 PM..
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passenger-memory-stats(8) Administration Commands passenger-memory-stats(8)
NAME
passenger-memory-stats - reports a snapshot of the Apache and Phusion Passenger memory statistcs
SYNOPSIS
passenger-memory-stats
DESCRIPTION
passenger-memory-stats allows you to easily analyze the real memory usage of Phusion Passenger and Apache.
Process inspection tools such as ps and top are useful, but they rarely show the correct memory usage. The real memory usage is usually
lower than what ps and top report.
There are many technical reasons why this is so, but an explanation is beyond the scope of this page. We refer the interested reader to
operating systems literature about virtual memory and copy-on-write.
When you run this tool the Private or private dirty RSS field shows the real memory usage of processes.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
HTTPD The full filename to the Apache executable. By default, Passenger will attempt to autodetect the Apache executable. If autodetection
fails for whatever reason, then Apache processes will not be shown in the memory statistics. In that case, you may manually specify
the location to the Apache executable using this environment variable.
SEE ALSO
passenger-status(8), ps(1), top(1),
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