Hello all.
For a few days now I have been monitoring the load on a Sun E450. For those few days (maybe three) vmstat has been reporting between 29 and 39 processes as being swapped out. According to my training this is not good. According to my training, determing which processes are lost in space is done thusly: /usr/ucb/ps -aux and look for non-system processes that occupy zero bytes of memory. Well, I have looked for them, but cannot find any. Output from the following command proves this:
/usr/ucb/ps -aux | awk '{ print $5,$6,$12 }' | grep -w 0
0 0 fsflush
0 0 sched
0 0 pageout.
Where are those pesky processes, and what can I do about this that does not include the words re and boot? I'm attaching here the output from vmstat:
vmstat 3 6
procs memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 m1 m2 m3 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 21 966488 188280 39 175 92 39 44 0 19 0 0 0 0 686 817 221 5 2 93
0 0 33 938168 279112 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 613 242 154 0 1 99
0 0 33 938168 279112 49 234 0 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 576 596 134 3 1 96
0 0 33 938168 279104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 508 180 105 0 0 100
0 0 33 938168 279080 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605 220 132 0 0 100
Sorry. That's pretty unreadable, I hope you can make sense of it. The important bit is the "w" column, showing a consistent 33.
As usual, thanks in advance for any effort put in to help me out.
Toby
For a few days now I have been monitoring the load on a Sun E450. For those few days (maybe three) vmstat has been reporting between 29 and 39 processes as being swapped out. According to my training this is not good. According to my training, determing which processes are lost in space is done thusly: /usr/ucb/ps -aux and look for non-system processes that occupy zero bytes of memory. Well, I have looked for them, but cannot find any. Output from the following command proves this:
/usr/ucb/ps -aux | awk '{ print $5,$6,$12 }' | grep -w 0
0 0 fsflush
0 0 sched
0 0 pageout.
Where are those pesky processes, and what can I do about this that does not include the words re and boot? I'm attaching here the output from vmstat:
vmstat 3 6
procs memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 m1 m2 m3 in sy cs us sy id
0 0 21 966488 188280 39 175 92 39 44 0 19 0 0 0 0 686 817 221 5 2 93
0 0 33 938168 279112 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 613 242 154 0 1 99
0 0 33 938168 279112 49 234 0 8 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 576 596 134 3 1 96
0 0 33 938168 279104 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 508 180 105 0 0 100
0 0 33 938168 279080 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 605 220 132 0 0 100
Sorry. That's pretty unreadable, I hope you can make sense of it. The important bit is the "w" column, showing a consistent 33.
As usual, thanks in advance for any effort put in to help me out.
Toby