Re: Free memory usage Sol10, 8.2.9

On 11/03/2009 07:16 PM, Subbiah Stalin-XCGF84 wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm trying to understand the free memory usage and why it falls below
> 17G sometimes and what could be causing it. Any pointers would be
> appreciated.
>
> root@prod1 # prtconf
> System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u
> Memory size: 32768 Megabytes
>
> [postgres@prod1 ~]$ vmstat 5 10
>   kthr      memory            page            disk          faults
> cpu
>   r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr 1m 1m 1m m1   in   sy   cs us
> sy id
>   0 0 0 51713480 21130304 58 185 325 104 104 0 0 23 3 7 1 488 604  573  1
> 2 97
>   0 0 0 51048768 18523456 6 10 0 192 192 0 0 4  0  3  0  527  753  807  2
> 1 97

Memory used by the OS for caching files is no longer free.
Free memory is wasted memory.
-J