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# 1  
Old 10-16-2009
Question Swap issue on Container
Dear all,

Kindly need your advice on swap issue on my container, SunOS 5.10.
We have allocated swap 20GB and memory 8 GB. We have some application installed on the container.

A few days ago we experienced a very slow system response...even for command like ls, df -k, etc..
I tried to display history of virtual memory status since start-up and got the following output, it seems that the swap doesn't work.

vmstat -s
0 swap ins
0 swap outs
0 pages swapped in
0 pages swapped out
etc...

Any advice will be helpful. Thanks.
Last edited by sprout009; 10-16-2009 at 01:58 AM..
# 2  
Old 10-16-2009
Swapping has been deprecated since ages with Solaris. It is replaced by demand paging unless severe RAM demand occurs.
# 3  
Old 10-16-2009
Hi, the thing is in the global zone, there are value for those parameter. How do I solve my problem then (without add RAM)?
# 4  
Old 10-16-2009
The zone RAM or VM might have been capped. Can you post its configuration ? What says "dmesg" in the global and non-global zones ?
What say, in the global zone,:
Code:
swap -s
swap -l
vmstat 2 2

# 5  
Old 10-16-2009
There are 2 times we experienced slow system response. The first day has no log in dmesg, the second day

The dmesg of global zone is showing file system full, we deleted some unnecessary files. And there are others message as below:

Code:
genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] devinfo0 is /pseudo/devinfo@0
explorer: [ID 702911 daemon.notice] Explorer started
pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: lockstat0
genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] lockstat0 is /pseudo/lockstat@0
pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: fbt0
genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] fbt0 is /pseudo/fbt@0

Global zone:
Code:
swap -s
total: 21534888k bytes allocated + 7251168k reserved = 28786056k used, 8948352k available

Code:
swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/md/dsk/d2      85,2      16 52447088 23295984

Code:
vmstat 2 2
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m1 m2 m3 m4   in   sy   cs us sy id
 0 0 64 9881880 1113080 1212 374 9509 150 185 0 345 0 18 0 0 2090 12336 2977 5 2 93
 0 1 149 8944336 935992 154 91 5231 0 0 0 0 202 1 0  0 1788 4952 2002 13  0 86



Container:
Code:
swap -s
total: 21538816k bytes allocated + 7251072k reserved = 28789888k used, 8944480k available

Code:
swap -l
swapfile             dev  swaplo blocks   free
/dev/swap            0,0      16 52447088 23296272

Code:
vmstat 2 2
 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr m1 m2 m3 m4   in   sy   cs us sy id
 0 0 64 9881848 1113072 20 45 268 5 5 0  0  0 18  0  0  625 1634  554  1  0 99
 0 0 149 8944096 871864 2 49 27 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  897 4017 1181  2  0 98



Thanks for your help.
Last edited by sprout009; 10-16-2009 at 06:51 AM..
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Old 10-16-2009
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# 7  
Old 10-16-2009
Depends on Solaris 10 release, I think that since release 5 is possible to configure swap values directly in zone configuration via
Code:
add capped-memory

sub command in
Code:
zonecfg

If you have once configured values for shared memory, capped memory, amount of swap you can dynamically change values for running zone via
Code:
prctl -n zone.max-swap -v 2g -t privileged   -r -e deny -i zone myzone
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