False Memory usage alarm!!

UNIX Solaris
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Hi Experts,

I am using Solaris-10, Sun-Fire-V445.

i got often the below message-

"Memory Usage � Critical, Memory usage (RAM) exceeding 90%
The memory utilization is exceeding 90%" in a application running on solaris.

I checked with Vmstat. Everything seems to be fine. Where i should check also? I already checked /var/adm/messages & /var/log/syslog.

 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr s1 s2 s3 --   in   sy   cs us sy id
 0 0 0 11768696 3961648 39 274 5 11 11 0 0 136 0 136 0  619 2746  933  4  4 92
 0 0 0 11586760 3789928 0 8  0  0  0  0  0 176 0 176 0  680 2312 1011  3  3 93
 0 0 0 11587272 3790368 1 1  0  6  6  0  0 179 0 179 0  681 3373  934  3  3 93
 0 0 0 11589832 3792712 20 198 0 0 0  0  0 178 0 178 0  696 1651  929  1  3 96
 0 0 0 11589832 3792880 13 120 0 4 4  0  0 132 0 132 0  612 1093  780  1  2 97
 0 0 0 11594368 3796520 1 1  0 16 16  0  0 11  0 11  0  344  374  417  0  1 98

Thanks

purple

2

where are you getting the following error? Is it from the system itself or from your monitoring tool?
Memory Usage - Critical, Memory usage (RAM) exceeding 90%

3

in my monitoring tool. so far i checked there is no threshold defines in the monitoring tools.

4

Pls do verify with prtstat as well with process info and mem usage. It caould be a false alarm

5

Yes its a false alarm.

Any idea how do i fix this? do you think it is related with my monitoring tool?

else unix generate this false alarm?

6

What tool is this? What exactly is it measuring? Maybe the data segment of some process hit 90% of its max size. Or maybe the tool is broken.