11-03-2002
Here are some links that may be handy:
Performance and Tuning on Solaris 2.6, 7 and 8
This mentions priority paging and has links to patches needed to run priority paging on 2.5.1 and 2.6.
Priority Paging - Frequently Asked Questions
More info on priority paging and a link to download the memstat utility which can display the additional memory statistics added to the kernel in Solaris 7. Starting with Solaris 8, "vmstat -p" will display these stats.
Priority Paging Is Not Needed With the New Solaris 8 Caching Architecture
So don't do that. Note that with Solaris 8, free memory will mean free memory again as well.
Solaris Internals
Home page for the Solaris Internals book. Several downloads are available here. Click on "tools" then "MemTool" to start the process of obtaining MemTool.
Also I have found that on 2.6, "/usr/proc/bin/pmap -x" works even though it's undocumented. Starting with Solaris 7, it's documented.
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NAME
free - Display amount of free and used memory in the system
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers used by the kernel. The
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