I have a Solaris 10u9 M5000 with 32GB RAM and have noticed the ZFS arc cache is consuming large amount of memory. Here's what I see on my system:
How can I limit this excessive use of memory without impacting the zones that run on this system?
Correct me where I missed the point - the system allocates 'unused' memory which it gives up when needed. You still have lots of free pages. This an m4000:
Is page cache is out of control? No. The system is doing to this m4000 exactly what you see on your box. Using idle memory to good advantage.
Are you experiecing problems? Really sluggish performance, lots of swapping?
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Are you experiecing problems? Really sluggish performance, lots of swapping?
Actually no. However, I have created other zones on ZFS pools. These zones run Oracle software that looks for available RAM before starting. If there is no RAM available, the software pukes out an error msg and dies.
I'm just looking for ways to get these zones up and running while managing memory effectively. I'm also new at using ZFS and zones so I'm going through a bit of a learning curve too.
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Hi,
kstat -p -m zfs -n arcstats -s size returns
zfs:0:arcstats:size 8177310584
this values is approx (7.61 GB)
but my Physical Memory size is only 6144 Megabytes.
Can this happen ?
if yes, then how can I find free memory on the system.
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