Re: memory hog

On 2008-03-05, adirtymindisajoyforever <getridofthespam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
hi,

During a period of time vmstat shows my swap free amount of swap space
is going down. I ps'ed the system to monitor the process size: no
increase,
I monitor all the open files and especially those in /tmp and /var/
run
(mounted on swap), no change.
What else can I monitor to find out who is consuming the memory?
System is
solaris 9, so no dtrace available.

Thanks for all replies.

Solaris 9, like most modern Unixes, uses available memory to cache
any and all files that are read, and keeps the cache even if the
file is closed. The cache is released only if somebody else
needs the memory, as there's no other reason to release it.


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