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Hi all,

OS = Solaris 5.10

Without using top, can anyone please advise how to get the current swap space that is assigned to a sub-zone that is part of the Solaris zone? Some of the servers does not have the top command and I do not have access to run zone level commands either like zonecfg etc.

Running swap -s gives which I believe is for the whole zone/container?

Code:

# swap -s
total: 70914888k bytes allocated + 18585056k reserved = 89499944k used, 1728496k available
#

top command shows 34G of swap for this server/zone, is that correct? If so, how to get this same information without using top? Will sar or vmstat give me this information?

Code:

load averages:  2.96,  2.87,  3.13;                    up 21+01:25:21                                 17:36:40
311 processes: 307 sleeping, 3 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 95.8% idle,  0.0% user,  4.2% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 96G phys mem, 15G free mem, 34G swap, 34G free swap

Thanks in advance.

vmstat -s

try that ..should give u swap info.

have a look at:

Code:

prstat -Z

really Solaris 10 / SunOS 5.10 "top" isn't part of Solaris 10 and is sometimes providing confusing metrics. Better to stay with standard Solaris tools, like prtsat, vmstat and the likes.
The swap areas are shared between all zones. You cannot assign swap space to a zone. However, you can limit (cap) real and virtual memory usage by a zone.
There is no concept of sub-zone part of the zone. There is always the global zone and possibly non-global zones but no further hierarchy (if it is what you meant with sub-zones).