On Linux, the "top" command shows a detailed but high level overview of your memory usage, showing:
Total Memory, Used Memory, Free Memory, Buffer Usage, Cache Usage, Swap size and Swap Usage.
My question is, what commands are available to show these memory usage figures in a clear and simple way? Bonus points if they're present in the "Core" install of Solaris. 'sar' doesn't count :)
"top" is usually available on Solaris.
If not then revert to the POSIX unix comand "vmstat" which must be there on any compliant UNIX system.
It should look something like this (from an AIX box)
vmstat System configuration: lcpu=4 mem=12288MB ent=2.00 kthr memory page faults cpu ----- ----------- ------------------------ ------------ ----------------------- r b avm fre re pi po fr sr cy in sy cs us sy id wa pc ec 2 1 1614644 585722 0 0 1 22 104 0 808 29047 2767 12 8 77 3 0.45 22.3
the colums "avm" and "fre" tell you the total memory and free memery.
a "man vmstat" should get you the gory details.
Top can be compiled from sources or downloaded from sunfreeware.com. As previously posted, vmstat is available (I believe it's in the core install?).
Here are the basics. I'm not sure that any of these count as "clear and simple" though.
ps(1)
For process-level view:
$ ps -opid,vsz,rss,osz,args
PID VSZ RSS SZ COMMAND
1831 1776 1008 222 ps -opid,vsz,rss,osz,args
1782 3464 2504 433 -bash
$
vsz/VSZ: total virtual process size (kb)
rss/RSS: resident set size (kb, may be inaccurate(!), see man)
osz/SZ: total size in memory (pages)
vmstat(1M)
$ vmstat 5 5
kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr rm s3 -- -- in sy cs us sy id
0 0 0 535832 219880 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 0 0 402 19 97 0 1 99
0 0 0 514376 203648 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 402 19 96 0 1 99
^C
prstat(1M)
PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
1852 martin 4840K 3600K cpu0 59 0 0:00:00 0.3% prstat/1
1780 martin 9384K 2920K sleep 59 0 0:00:00 0.0% sshd/1
...
swap(1)
"Long listing" and "summary" modes:
$ swap -l
swapfile dev swaplo blocks free
/dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/swap 256,1 16 1048560 1048560
$ swap -s
total: 42352k bytes allocated + 20192k reserved = 62544k used, 607672k available
$
top(1)
An older version (3.51) is available on the Solaris companion CD from Sun, with the disclaimer that this is "Community (not Sun) supported". More recent binary packages available from sunfreeware.com or blastwave.org.
load averages: 0.02, 0.00, 0.00; up 2+12:31:38 08:53:58
31 processes: 30 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 98.0% idle, 0.0% user, 2.0% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 1024M phys mem, 197M free mem, 512M total swap, 512M free swap
PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
1898 martin 1 54 0 3336K 1808K cpu 0:00 0.96% top
7 root 11 59 0 10M 7912K sleep 0:09 0.02% svc.startd
sar(1M)
And just what's wrong with sar? :)
# echo ::memstat | mdb -k
Page Summary Pages MB %Tot
------------ ---------------- ---------------- ----
Kernel 7308 57 23%
Anon 9055 70 29%
Exec and libs 1968 15 6%
Page cache 2224 17 7%
Free (cachelist) 6470 50 20%
Free (freelist) 4641 36 15%
Total 31666 247
Physical 31256 244