Memory usage on Solaris 7

[tomecki24]

Hello,

I've got got a question. As an output from the 'top' program I have a following line:
"Memory: 512M real, 21M free, 1014M swap in use, 344M swap free"

How can I check, where almost 500MB memory has gone?
Can I check which process use it?
On this computer I've got some Tibco Adapters, Intershop4, LDAP 4.12.

Thanks a lot
Tomasz

 

[lancer73]

sort the top listing by memory size. from within top:

o size

 

[dobbyn]

Note that in Solaris 7, free memory is taken by the system for file cache, so you usually have very little "free".

You can get a set of tools from
ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/memtool/

Included is a program called "prtmem", which I've found very useful in showing how much memory is actually being used by your applications as opposed to file cache.

 

[Butterfly123]

Hey, U can as well find the details from the process manager.. - Hemant
Networking and Systems Integration Group
Satyam Computer Services Ltd

 

[bigscouse]

Try
ps -e -o pid,ppid,sid,user,fname,pmem | sort +5
Ged Jones

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