High Memory Utilization

Hello Guys,

I have one Solaris server with high memory utilization >90%. As per checking, below is the output for memory usage.

bash-3.00# ps -efo pmem,uid,pid,ppid,pcpu,comm | sort -r
%MEM   UID   PID  PPID %CPU COMMAND
 1.7 29496 20668     1  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/tools/java/bin/java
 1.5 267074 20368 20364  0.0 iwserver.sol
 1.2     0 20679     1  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/tools/java/bin/java
 1.0     0  1947  1946  0.0 ../jre/bin/java
 0.5 267074 20551     1  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/eventsubsystem/../tools/java/jre/bin/java
 0.5     0  1761     1  0.0 /opt/app/CSF/AccessService/jre/bin/java
 0.4 267074  1530     1  0.0 /opt/app/search/jre/bin/java
 0.4     0 20764     1  0.1 /opt/app/OpenDeployNG/jre/bin/java
 0.4     0  1786     1  0.1 /opt/app/AdminServer/servletd/java1.4/bin/java
 0.3 267074 20628 20626  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/bin/iwproxy
 0.2 267074 14947     1  0.0 iwldapsync
 0.2 267074  6075     1  0.0 iwldapsync
 0.2     0  2228  2098  0.0 detect_group:filesystem
 0.2     0  2098     1  0.0 ./perl
 0.2     0  1513     1  0.0 ./AutonomyContent.exe
 0.1 8460347 23429 23353  0.0 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
 0.1 8452755 28193 28192  0.0 /usr/lib/ssh/sshd
 0.1 29496 20624 20616  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/iw-webd/bin/iwwebd
 0.1 29496 20623 20616  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/iw-webd/bin/iwwebd
 0.1 29496 20622 20616  0.0 /opt/app/iw-home/iw-webd/bin/iwwebd
 0.1 267074 22724 20717  0.0 /opt/web/apache/app/team/bin/httpd
 0.1 267074 21047 20717  0.0 /opt/web/apache/app/team/bin/httpd
 0.1 267074 20724 20717  0.0 /opt/web/apache/app/team/bin/httpd
 0.1 267074 20723 20717  0.0 /opt/web/apache/app/team/bin/httpd
 0.1 267074 20722 20717  0.0 /opt/web/apache/app/team/bin/httpd

As per further checking, there was more idle process that I suspect to be the reason of high memory utilization on the server.

Can someone advise on this matter (on how to reduce the memory usage utilization)?

Thank you.

BR,
Mr. M :slight_smile:

How do you measure memory utilization ?
What makes you think it is a problem ?
Please use code tags.
Please post these command's output:

echo ::memstat | mdb -k
swap -s
vmstat 5 3
prstat -cZ 5 1