UNIX admin schrieb: >> I started gnome and added the system monitor in my >> panel. I couldn't belief tat my ram is full and >> solaris doesn't use any swap space. I started many >> gui app's, the machine slows down but it doesn't use >> any swap .... why? > > Perhaps you have not sliced the disk such as to have a swap slice, or perhaps > the swap slice was sliced to be too small. > > Please run the following command: > > /usr/sbin/swap -l > > This will show you whether you have a swap file, and if one exists, how big > it is. >
If swap is available, I could imagine that the OS is freeing up pages, which it can reclaim from the filesystem. Take a look at the output of 'vmstat 5', with an eye on columns re (reclaimed), fr (freed), pi (kB paged in). Alternatively, you might want to install sysstat (http://www.maier-komor.de/sysstat.html), then you'll have all important Solaris metrics at a single glance. - Thomas _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
