Re: [perf-discuss] how to find out kernel memory allocated by what threads?

2009-01-06 Thread johansen
> But I wonder can this be the problem? (claiming 55% of memory in > kmem_alloc_xxx buffers, which totals at about 16GB! ) Didn't those > "simple" exec (ps, perl, grep, prtdiag etc.) free the buffers/memory > when they exit? Many of these allocations probably were freed. Remember, this script i

Re: [perf-discuss] how to find out kernel memory allocated by what threads?

2009-01-06 Thread Haiou Fu (Kevin)
A dtrace script shows that there are a lot of shell scripts (perl, sh, awk, grep etc.) running on the system calling kmem_alloc() , they are mostly the database monitoring/operation scripts running inside each zone (aoubt 7 zones) almost every minute. But I wonder can this be the problem? (cla

Re: [perf-discuss] [smf-discuss] sar service method script looks questionable to me...

2009-01-06 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 12:45PM, nico wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:16:28AM -0800, David > Bustos wrote: > > Quoth Richard L. Hamilton on Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at > 09:19:16AM -0800: > > > Looking at the method script for the sar service > (as of snv_97), I see that > > > it creates the sys crontab f