[OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory drains away....

[Michael Schuster]

Hi,

the obvious question to ask: what's the machine doing?

Michael

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 13:49, Daniel Kjar <dkjar at elmira.edu> wrote:
> I have always had this problem and it has never been resolved.  Does anyone
> else see  this and is there a cure?
>
> I have a v40z (although all of my boxes do it) 32gb ram 4 dual core 885s.
>  When you restart the server it shows about 27 gb free.  Over 12 hours this
> slowly degrades to about 1gb free and I start to notice a slow down.  Once
> this drops down to 400mb stuff starts to really drag.  Setting the max zfs
> arc use does nothing.  This is using TOP.
>
> If you look at the gnome performance monitor it will say you are only using
> 2gb of ram yet there is degradation in performance (I assume for slow memory
> clearing and reuse).
>
> CPU states: 94.3% idle,  1.3% user,  4.4% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
> Kernel: 7755 ctxsw, 139 trap, 13034 intr, 22379 syscall, 120 flt, 136 pgin
> Memory: 32G phys mem, 988M free mem, 16G total swap, 16G free swap
>
> and this dropped below 1gb while I was typing this message.
>
>
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