Re: [perf-discuss] thread_reaper can't keep up with massive creation of threads

2009-10-23 Thread Steve Sistare
Thanks for retesting. In hindsight my analysis has a fatal flaw. I used the reap deficit at the end of the run of 162468 threads to estimate hash table residency, but the residency should instead track the steady state rate of thread creation/destruction of approx 5000 threads (assuming that t

Re: [perf-discuss] Kernel usage

2009-10-23 Thread Jim Mauro
Right - there's no reason to guess here; #dtrace -n 'syscall:::entry { @[execname,probefunc] = count() }' Control c after 10-30 seconds or or. You'll get a sorted list of process names and which system calls they're calling. Change "execname" to "pid" or PIDs are more usefull, or use both

Re: [perf-discuss] Kernel usage

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Riethmuller - PAE
Hi Matt, why "suppose" who is making the syscalls when you can know ? run prstat -mL and check it SCL rate or truss -c the process. HTH Paul >- Begin Included Message -< Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:06:31 -0700 (PDT) From: "Matt V." Subject: Re: [perf-discuss] Kernel usage To: perf-dis

Re: [perf-discuss] Kernel usage

2009-10-23 Thread Matt V.
Thanks for your response. For moment, we can't patch Oracle version (production environment). But on another server (which contains containers too), we have the same problem: > sar 1 100 SunOS 5.10 Generic_137137-09 sun4u10/23/2009 09:00:17%usr%sys%wio %idle 09:00:18 12