SUMMARY: memory leakage

From: Sun Light (sun_light@flashmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2000 - 23:08:59 CDT


Many thanks to

bergman@panix.com
mike.salehi@kodak.com
Danny Johnson
Gil Gilliland
Stout, Logan
Casper Dik
Frank Smith

There is no evidence that my memory is running low.

------------- Original Message ----------------------

> Dear Sun Managers,
>
> I've an E450 running Solaris 2.6. User is complaining
> that the memory is low (there is a memory leak).
> Following is the output from top tool and vmstat. From the vmstat, sr, pi

> and po seems to me are fine. But I'm not quite sure how to interpret the
> top output. Can someone enlighten me?
> I need the top manual. TIA.
>
>
> last pid: 19869; load averages: 0.64, 0.40, :0.31
> 17:39:14
>
> 93 processes: 89 sleeping, 2 running, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
> CPU states: 68.7% idle, 26.5% user, 4.5% kernel, 0.3% iowait, 0.0% swap

> Memory: 1024M real, 428M free, 2048M swap free
>
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
> 594 picsaus1 28 20 0 26M 22M run 8:29 24.50% tweMgrobj
> 19869 root 1 22 0 2336K 1872K cpu1 0:00 1.81% top
> 1527 root 1 23 0 5672K 4048K run 6:44 0.71% bgscollect
> 402 root 1 59 -18 5872K 3768K sleep 1:51 0.43% seosd
> 221 root 10 50 0 2280K 1736K sleep 1:01 0.22% nscd
> 19866 picsaus1 4 53 2 2272K 1640K sleep 0:00 0.12% forker
> 19835 picsaus1 1 35 2 1632K 1184K sleep 0:00 0.06%
> sche_forker.ksh
>
> 391 pora7ap 1 58 0 103M 52M sleep 0:04 0.05% oracle
> 19868 picsaus1 4 45 2 2264K 1600K sleep 0:00 0.04% forked
> 579 picsaus1 14 59 0 13M 9144K sleep 0:52 0.04% tweSrvlb
> 573 picsaus1 10 59 0 4192K 3256K sleep 0:22 0.03% tweSrvlog
> 588 picsaus1 13 59 0 5784K 4808K sleep 0:24 0.03% tweMgrnod
> 19832 root 1 45 0 1632K 1184K sleep 0:00 0.03% ksh
> 387 pora7ap 1 59 0 103M 56M sleep 0:03 0.02% oracle
> 19834 picsaus1 1 42 2 928K 760K sleep 0:00 0.02% sh
> /usr/local/bin/top -o size
>
> last pid: 1565; load averages: 0.50, 0.28, 0.26
> 20:10:12
>
> 82 1 1 on cpu
> CPU states: 73.9% idle, 6.4% user, 16.0% kernel, 3.7% iowait, 0.0% swap

> Memory: 1024M real, 388M free, 2048M swap free
>
> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
> 376 pora7ap 1 58 0 104M 53M sleep 0:00 0.00% oracle
> 378 pora7ap 1 59 0 103M 52M sleep 0:00 0.00% oracle
> 391 pora7ap 1 58 0 103M 52M sleep 0:05 0.00% oracle
> 387 pora7ap 1 58 0 103M 56M sleep 0:04 0.00% oracle
> 385 pora7ap 1 58 0 103M 55M sleep 0:01 0.00% oracle
> 389 pora7ap 1 59 0 103M 52M sleep 0:00 0.00% oracle
> 380 pora7ap 1 59 0 103M 52M sleep 0:00 0.00% oracle
> 383 pora7ap 1 60 0 103M 52M sleep 0:03 0.00% oracle
> 592 picsaus1 19 58 0 33M 29M sleep 34:33 0.00% tweMgrobj
> 594 picsaus1 23 59 0 28M 24M sleep 12:42 1.21% tweMgrobj
> 579 picsaus1 14 59 0 13M 9376K sleep 1:03 0.42% tweSrvlb
> 357 root 1 59 0 12M 7112K sleep 0:00 0.00% Xsun
> 11501 picsaus1 11 59 0 11M 7240K sleep 0:04 0.00% tweMgrobj
> 627 picsaus1 11 54 0 11M 7176K sleep 0:05 0.00% tweMgrobj
> 596 picsaus1 11 38 0 11M 7176K sleep 0:02 0.00% tweMgrobj
>
>
> # vmstat 5 5
> procs memory page disk faults cpu

> r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr f0 s0 s1 s2 in sy cs us
> sy id
> 0 0 0 249760 584368 0 91 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 261 2684 887 8
> 3 89
> 0 0 0 2695440 430072 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 221 1455 711 0
> 4 96
> 0 0 0 2695552 430136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 214 1171 700 0
> 0 100
> 0 0 0 2695552 430136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 212 1178 697 0
> 0 100
> 0 0 0 2695552 430136 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 214 1174 696 0
> 0 100
>
> 17:43:47 %usr %sys %wio %idle
> 17:43:52 0 4 0 96
> 17:43:57 0 0 0 99
> 17:44:02 8 4 0 88
> 17:44:07 1 4 1 94
> 17:44:12 0 0 1 99
>
> Average 2 2 1 95
> #
>
> # swap -l
> swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
> /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s1 32,1 16 4194272 4194272
>
>
> # vmstat -S 10
> procs memory page disk faults cpu

> r b w swap free si so pi po fr de sr f0 s0 s1 s2 in sy cs us
> sy id
> 0 0 0 619016 558968 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 259 2721 902 7
> 4 89
> 0 0 0 2694848 397832 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 4 5 317 1280 696 0
> 3 97
> 0 0 0 2694848 397832 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 213 1168 697 0
> 0 100
> 0 0 0 2694848 397832 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 212 1167 695 0
> 0 100
> 0 0 0 2694832 397816 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 290 1656 817 11
> 4 85
> 0 0 0 2694816 397800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 301 2682 1340 16
> 0 84
> 0 0 0 2694808 397792 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 326 3062 1405 26
> 1 73
> 0 0 0 2694840 397824 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 241 1491 794 0
> 2 97
> 0 0 0 2694808 397784 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 303 2576 1172 23
> 2 75
> 0 0 0 2694824 397800 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 227 1882 972 4
> 1 96
> 0 0 0 2693936 396960 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 262 8053 1593 13
> 15 72
> 0 0 0 2693496 396504 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 4 0 289 3418 1577 0
> 1 99
> 0 0 0 2693496 396312 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 256 3422 1609 0
> 0 100
>

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