Solaris 10 Swap Issue

[tnyr35]

I have recently installed Solaris 10 on a SunFire V440 with Veritas Volume Manager, NetbackUp, Migrator, and Cluster. My root drive is 15gb with a swap volume also at 15gb. For some reason my swap volume fills up and fails over to my other 440. I can slowly watch the size of swap getting smaller even though its capacity stays at 0%. Have not found a reason as of yet.

Thanks in advance

 

[SamBones]

What is your question?

Look for a process who's process size is increasing. It sounds like you have something running that has a memory leak.

Hope this helps.

 

[tnyr35]

Thank you for your suggestion. I have actually created a cron that captures multiple system activity that runs every half hour. I also have Veritas looking into a possible memory leak in Migrator. I will let the forum know the outcome.

 

[comtec17]

15GB is mighty large for swap, how much actual memory does your server have?

You are on the right track. If you have 15GB of swap, then you definetly have a memory leak or run away process on your hands.

 

[elgrandeperro]

Also watch /tmp if it is tmpfs file system, which is carved from swap space.

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