Diagnosing Solaris 8 server memory and swap space usage
- by datSilencer
Hello everyone. Essentially, my question is related to memory allocation for Solaris virtual machines.
I am running a couple of old Sun ONE 6 Java web servers on two Solaris 8 virtual machines. I see that there's a reasonable amount of swap space being used, but I'm not exactly sure if this could indicate a need to add more RAM to these machines.
At service peak hours (mornings usually), the response time of the web application these servers host jumps up to at most 11 seconds (somewhat detrimental for a relatively simple web page loading action). Average response time at non peak times is about 5 seconds.
What would you be able to infer about the RAM usage for these machines from the ouput below? Is this information reasonably sufficient? Or would I need to run some other commands to rule out server memory starvation?
Finally, since there is a Java application at the core of the setup, I've also thought about:
1) Trace the heap's Object allocation to detect potential memory leaks.
2) Do some performance profiling to see if this instead related to networking delays. I mention this since the application talks with a single Oracle Database, but I would doubt this to be the case since they're pretty close from a network segmentation perspective.
I appreciate any kind of insight and feedback you could provide.
Thanks for your time and help.
Server 1:
40 processes: 38 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 99.1% idle, 0.4% user, 0.4% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 2048M real, 295M free, 865M swap in use, 3788M swap free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
12676 webservd 112 29 10 616M 242M sleep 103:37 0.48% webservd
18317 root 1 59 0 23M 19M sleep 67:24 0.08% perl
9479 support 1 59 0 6696K 2448K cpu/1 0:11 0.05% top
8012 root 10 59 0 34M 704K sleep 80:54 0.04% java
1881 root 33 29 10 110M 13M sleep 33:03 0.02% webservd
7808 root 1 59 0 83M 67M sleep 7:59 0.00% perl
1461 root 20 59 0 5328K 1392K sleep 6:49 0.00% syslogd
1691 root 2 59 0 27M 680K sleep 4:22 0.00% webservd
24386 root 1 59 0 15M 11M sleep 2:50 0.00% perl
23259 root 1 59 0 11M 4240K sleep 2:42 0.00% perl
24718 root 1 59 0 11M 5464K sleep 2:29 0.00% perl
22810 root 1 59 0 19M 11M sleep 2:21 0.00% perl
24451 root 1 53 2 11M 3800K sleep 2:18 0.00% perl
18501 root 1 56 1 11M 3960K sleep 2:18 0.00% perl
14450 root 1 56 1 15M 6920K sleep 1:49 0.00% perl
Server 2
42 processes: 40 sleeping, 1 zombie, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 98.8% idle, 0.4% user, 0.8% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 1024M real, 31M free, 554M swap in use, 3696M swap free
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
5607 webservd 74 29 10 284M 173M sleep 20:14 0.21% webservd
15919 support 1 59 0 4056K 2520K cpu/1 0:08 0.09% top
13138 root 10 59 0 34M 1952K sleep 210:51 0.08% java
13753 root 1 59 0 22M 12M sleep 170:15 0.07% perl
22979 root 33 29 10 112M 7864K sleep 85:07 0.04% webservd
22930 root 1 59 0 3424K 1552K sleep 17:47 0.01% xntpd
22978 root 2 59 0 27M 2296K sleep 10:49 0.00% webservd
13571 root 1 59 0 9400K 5112K sleep 5:52 0.00% perl
5606 root 2 29 10 29M 9056K sleep 0:36 0.00% webservd
15910 support 1 59 0 9128K 2616K sleep 0:00 0.00% sshd
13106 root 1 59 0 82M 3520K sleep 7:47 0.00% perl
13547 root 1 59 0 12M 5528K sleep 6:38 0.00% perl
13518 root 1 59 0 9336K 3792K sleep 6:24 0.00% perl
13399 root 1 56 1 8072K 3616K sleep 5:18 0.00% perl
13557 root 1 53 2 8248K 3624K sleep 5:12 0.00% perl
