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Operating Systems Solaris How the free memory threshold? Post 303016575 by bakunin on Sunday 29th of April 2018 04:38:19 PM
Old 04-29-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by tmonk1
We had 27GB free memory when restarted the server,But it continuously decreased to reach 1500M and keeping the free mem between 1500 to 3000.
I am no Solaris expert, but this is a common trait of UNIX-kernels: they commit otherwise unused memory to file caching. When you start there is a lot of free RAM as no applications have been started yet but at the same time there is nothing which makes sense to cache, so the RAM remains free.

Once your application(s) start(s) not only does that use RAM but the processes also use (-> load/write to) certain parts of the filesystem to work with. Now that a pattern of file usage emerges the UNIX kernel uses leftover RAM to cache exactly these parts of the filesystem. Hence the free memory seemingly drops.

Most UNIX kernels (and i suppsoe Solaris does too, in AIX this is called minperm and maxperm) also have some tuning parameter for how much memory should not be used for file caching but always be available for programs. I suppose this is set to effectively 1.5GB, so you see the memory not dropping below this point.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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NAME
Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::Apache - object driver for caching objects in Apache's request space SYNOPSIS
package MyObject; use base qw( Data::ObjectDriver::BaseObject ); __PACKAGE__->install_properties({ ... driver => Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::Apache->new( fallback => Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::Memcached->new( cache => Cache::Memcached->new({ servers => @MEMCACHED_SERVERS }), fallback => Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::DBI->new( @$DBI_INFO ), ), ), ... }); 1; DESCRIPTION
Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::Apache provides automatic caching of retrieved objects in the per-request memory space of your Apache mod_perl processes, when used in conjunction with your actual object driver. It can be used to provide even faster results over memcached when requesting objects that have already been requested during the same request by some other part of your application, at the cost of the memory necessary to store the objects. If your models can be used in an Apache mod_perl application as well as another context such as a command line shell, consider replacing the Apache layer of your caching with a "Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::RAM" layer when Apache is not available. See Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::Apache. USAGE
o Data::ObjectDriver::Driver::Cache::Apache->new(%params) Required members of %params are: o "fallback" The "Data::ObjectDriver" object driver from which to request objects that are not found in the Apache process cache. DIAGNOSTICS
The Apache driver provides integration with the "Data::ObjectDriver" debug and profiling systems. As these systems are designed around SQL queries, synthetic queries are logged to represent caching operations. The operations generated by this driver are: o "APACHECACHE_GET ?" Retrieve an object. The argument is the cache key for the requested object. o "APACHECACHE_ADD ?,?" Add an object to the cache. The arguments are the cache key for the object and the flattened representation of the object to cache. o "APACHECACHE_SET ?,?" Put an object in the cache. The arguments are the cache key for the object and the flattened representation of the object to cache. o "APACHECACHE_DELETE ?" Remove an object from the cache. The argument is the cache key for the object to invalidate. SEE ALSO
Apache, Apache2::RequestUtil LICENSE
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