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

[Daniel Kjar]

Just serving sunray sessions but this happens whether anyone is logged 
on (none last night) or not.  If somebody fires up something like a 
virtual machine it just speeds up the process.

On 11/ 4/11 08:53 AM, Michael Schuster wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Daniel Kjar
>> Assistant Professor of Biology
>> Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
>> Elmira College
>> 1 Park Place
>> Elmira, NY 14901
>> 607-735-1826
>> http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar
>>
>> "...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
>>         -E. O. Wilson
>>
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-- 
Dr. Daniel Kjar
Assistant Professor of Biology
Division of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Elmira College
1 Park Place
Elmira, NY 14901
607-735-1826
http://faculty.elmira.edu/dkjar

"...humans send their young men to war; ants send their old ladies"
	-E. O. Wilson