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T4-1 high kernel usuage

edited Jul 8, 2015 10:02AM in Oracle Solaris Performance, Panics, Hangs, and Dtrace (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered

Hi everyone,

According to 1 of my user, he is experiencing a high kernel usage during peak period.

Server has 32Gb of memory

I have the explorer of the system. How can we know what is causing this high memory usage?

Will it be useful to have the guds script output?

Page Summary                Pages                MB  %Tot

------------     ----------------  ----------------  ----

Kernel                     112954               882   44%
Anon                        72707               568   28%
Exec and libs                3737                29    1%
Page cache                  20309               158    8%
Free (cachelist)            42371               331   17%
Free (freelist)              3851                30    2%
Total                      255929              1999
Physical                   254459              1987


     UID   PID  PPID   C    STIME TTY         TIME CMD

    root     0     0   0   Sep 09 ?           2:09 sched

    root     4     0   0   Sep 09 ?          21:02 kmem_task

    root     1     0   0   Sep 09 ?          55:05 /sbin/init

    root     2     0   0   Sep 09 ?           2:44 pageout

    root     3     0   0   Sep 09 ?        3751:52 fsflush

    root     5     0   0   Sep 09 ?         748:09 vmtasks

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