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Operating Systems Solaris Where is my memory? How to fix it ? Post 303037755 by ron323232 on Tuesday 13th of August 2019 02:41:29 AM

08-13-2019

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Where is my memory? How to fix it ?

Hello,

I have few Solaris 11.2 servers. Since sometime, we are noticing high memory utilization in them.
Here is current config

Code:

root@ser22-zonemgr:~# /tmp/memory.sh
        Physical memory size:            36864
        Memory usage in MB:              32938
        Memory usage in %:               89%
root@ser22-zonemgr:~#
root@ser22-zonemgr:~# echo ::memstat -v | mdb -k
Page Summary                 Pages             Bytes  %Tot
----------------- ----------------  ----------------  ----
Kernel                      721833              5.5G   15%
Guest                            0                 0    0%
ZFS Metadata                 74346            580.8M    2%
ZFS File Data               853646              6.5G   18%
Anon                       2351933             17.9G   50%
Exec and libs                 2369             18.5M    0%
Page cache                  222555              1.6G    5%
Free (cachelist)              4922             38.4M    0%
Free (freelist)             486988              3.7G   10%
Total                      4718592               36G
root@ser22-zonemgr:~#

From prstat -->
 NPROC USERNAME  SWAP   RSS MEMORY      TIME  CPU
   115 timesten   16G   15G    43%  76:49:22 1.6%
   106 root     2887M 2698M   7.3% 383:50:51 2.2%
     8 daemon     41M   56M   0.2%   1:15:31 0.0%
     8 pkg5srv    37M   38M   0.1%   1:07:26 0.0%
     8 john    12M   34M   0.1%   0:00:00 0.0%
     2 smmsp    3936K   13M   0.0%   0:03:25 0.0%
     2 netadm   3808K 9032K   0.0%   0:07:34 0.0%
     2 netcfg   2560K 6664K   0.0%   0:07:39 0.0%
     2 hspokes   2408K   15M   0.0%   0:00:00 0.0%
     2 noaccess 2088K 8096K   0.0%   0:00:02 0.0%

And here is from another server

Code:

ser42-zonemgr:~# /tmp/memory.sh
        Physical memory size:            16384
        Memory usage in MB:              14653
        Memory usage in %:               89%
ser42-zonemgr:~# echo ::memstat -v | mdb -k
Page Summary                 Pages             Bytes  %Tot
----------------- ----------------  ----------------  ----
Kernel                      674735              5.1G   32%
Defdump prealloc            119423            932.9M    6%
ZFS Metadata                111996            874.9M    5%
ZFS File Data               168163              1.2G    8%
Anon                        877423              6.6G   42%
Exec and libs                 2496             19.5M    0%
Page cache                   17788            138.9M    1%
Free (cachelist)                 7               56k    0%
Free (freelist)             216864              1.6G   10%
Total                      2097152               16G
ser42-zonemgr:~#

As I read few forums, I understood that the memory is filled with unmapped pages of data read from disk. It's kept in memory because those files may be read again and keeping the data in memory saves a disk read. That is where, OS is holding up memory. This is leaving less memory, which can be called as 'free'. Though whenever any application or DB needs that memory, OS will release. But our problem is, monitoring system. When total utilization hits 90% (right now it is 89%), it will page out SA.

What can be solution for this issue ?
Any recommendations ?

Thanks

ron323232

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