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- From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: SunOS memory usage ??
- Date: 15 Sep 1992 15:10:38 GMT
- Organization: Uppsala University
- Lines: 31
- Sender: goran@solaris.astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
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- Message-ID: <194udeINNjg2@corax.udac.uu.se>
- References: <1992Sep14.175346.7553@walter.bellcore.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.astro.uu.se
- Keywords: vmstat, ps, missing memory
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- In article <1992Sep14.175346.7553@walter.bellcore.com>, jpage@spiker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Jim Page) writes:
- |> anyone know what's the deal with SunOS's memory deallocation technique??
- |>
- |> just the facts:
- |>
- |> - SUN 4/280 running SunOS4.1 with 64 Meg
- |>
- |> - developers complain that some of their MOTIF processes fail due to
- |> insufficient memory....
- |>
- |> vmstat's fre column showed less than 2 Meg free and then page outs(po's)
- |> started to appear.
- |>
- [stuff deleted]
-
- Try pstat -s to see how much swap space is allocated and how much
- is available.
- If you need more swapspace, use mkfile to make an extra swap file,
- add it to /etc/fstab, and enable swap on it with swapon -a as
- described in man pages.
-
- --
-
- Goran
-
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- Goran Hammarback | goran@astro.uu.se
- Astronomiska Observatoriet |
- Uppsala Universitet |
- S-751 20 SWEDEN |
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