[OpenIndiana-discuss] Memory usage concern

[Heinrich van Riel]

Thanks for the responses.

Spot on  in post http://openindiana.org/**pipermail/openindiana-discuss/**
2012-September/009788.html<http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-September/009788.html>

arc_meta_used             =       423 MB

2 days later

arc_meta_used             =       827 MB

thanks,

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Roel_D <openindiana at out-side.nl> wrote:

> Hmz, i'm running multiple windows 2003 servers within virtualbox running
> on Solaris 10 hosts. Some windows servers are online for almost a year now.
>
> The VHD's are stored on a Zfs mirror and i never had any out-of-memory
> errors.
>
> The solaris servers also serve glassfish, mysqlcluster and many, many more
> services from zones.
>
> Running out of memory can imho only be caused by a programmingerror in the
> virtualbox version.
>
> Zfs will not  cause an out-of-memory
>
> Kind regards,
>
> The out-side
>
> Op 12 okt. 2012 om 18:13 heeft "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" <
> udo.grabowski at kit.edu> het volgende geschreven:
>
> > On 12/10/2012 16:10, Heinrich van Riel wrote:
> >>
> >> My concern is as follow, when I 1st start the system and VMs there is
> 8GB
> >> of free memory. This number keeps decreasing by about 300MB every 10
> hours.
> >>
> >> OI - 10GB max allocated to ZFS ARC (only setting change from default
> >> install)
> >> ....
> >> At the current rate there will be no memory free in 10 days.
> >>
> >> Am I concerned for no reason?
> >
> > This can impact your other work to do on that machine severely.
> > However, if that is only a fileserver, ZFS will manage to keep
> > some memory available so that the machine will not swap if
> > nothing else interferes. Insofar Damians comments on unused
> > RAM are correct. But if you know you need space for something
> > else often, see my remedies for this problem in this thread:
> >
> > <
> http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2012-September/009788.html
> >
> >
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