Comments on: Displaying Solaris kernel memory usage http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/17/displaying-solaris-kernel-memory-usage/ Blog O' Matty Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rahul http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/17/displaying-solaris-kernel-memory-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-829020 Rahul Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:18:59 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=453#comment-829020 Hi, kernel usage of my server is high, and when i do sar it show %sys high. how do i check which process is eating kernel resources ---cut--- CPU states: 69.8% idle, 10.8% user, 19.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap Memory: 96G phys mem, 73G free mem, 31G total swap, 31G free swap ---cut--- Hi, kernel usage of my server is high, and when i do sar it show %sys high. how do i check which process is eating kernel resources

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CPU states: 69.8% idle, 10.8% user, 19.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 96G phys mem, 73G free mem, 31G total swap, 31G free swap
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]]> By: Barry Tait http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/17/displaying-solaris-kernel-memory-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-784351 Barry Tait Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:07:58 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=453#comment-784351 Very useful - Thanks Very useful – Thanks

]]> By: Matt Bryant http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/17/displaying-solaris-kernel-memory-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-669425 Matt Bryant Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:38:59 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=453#comment-669425 Jolly useful post - thanks! :) Jolly useful post – thanks! :)

]]> By: Jacob Sam http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2006/06/17/displaying-solaris-kernel-memory-usage/comment-page-1/#comment-611706 Jacob Sam Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:09:46 +0000 http://daemons.net/~matty/blog/?p=453#comment-611706 Please add for the benefit of thos trying to use this on earlier releases of Solaris. mdb is available in earlier versions of solaris (9 and 8) and memstat can be made to work on Solaris 8 by copying memory.so [http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/downloads/index.php] to /usr/lib/mdb/kvm/sparcv9, and then using ::load memory prior to running ::memstat. Please add for the benefit of thos trying to use this on earlier releases of Solaris.
mdb is available in earlier versions of solaris (9 and 8) and memstat can be made to work on Solaris 8 by copying memory.so [http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/downloads/index.php] to /usr/lib/mdb/kvm/sparcv9, and then using ::load memory prior to running ::memstat.

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