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Old 01-14-2002
how to check how much memory being used?
is there other way to check how much physical memory being used without using top command?....this is on Sun Solrais 2.7
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Old 01-14-2002
You can use ps -el and look at the SZ column to get a rough idea. You can also use /usr/proc/bin/pmap to check on a per process basis to get size/segment and add them.
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Old 01-14-2002
Use swap -l in combination of vmstat...hope this helps
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Old 01-15-2002
I'm partial to sar.
 
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