Weird output in vmstat...

From: m.anshul@accenture.com
Date: Thu Jul 20 2006 - 05:31:56 EDT


Hi Guru's,

I'm running Solaris 10 and oracle 10g relaease 1 and facing a weird problem,

vmstat output is showing "po" value to be very high even though processes seem
to run normally. Can some one help me understand this.

Here is the outputs;

# uptime
  5:16pm up 9 day(s), 4 min(s), 13 users, load average: 2.41, 2.35, 1.73
# vmstat 5 5
 kthr memory page disk faults cpu
 r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s3 sd sd sd in sy cs us sy
id
 0 0 0 26146632 9687128 371 3045 17463171483972 540 540 0 0 0 0 0 1 5267 7645
4089 5 2 93
 0 0 0 25264496 9124656 510 13 3413740062952 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2816 8304 6155 17
3 80
 0 0 0 25264488 9120480 511 0 3009762254213 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2711 7590 5918 16
3 81
 0 0 0 25264568 9131728 21 1 3347373613093 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 2756 7483 5945 16
3 81
 0 0 0 25264632 9120600 511 0 4025781725049 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2844 7934 6218 17
2 81

   PID USERNAME SIZE RSS STATE PRI NICE TIME CPU PROCESS/NLWP
  1614 orartxs 5289M 5231M sleep 51 0 0:02:21 3.0% oracle/1
  1618 orartxs 5289M 5231M sleep 52 0 0:02:19 3.0% oracle/1
  1616 orartxs 5289M 5231M sleep 42 0 0:02:17 3.0% oracle/1
  1612 orartxs 5289M 5231M sleep 42 0 0:02:19 3.0% oracle/1
  1608 bbscsix 83M 59M sleep 55 0 0:01:10 1.5% sqlldr/1
  1609 bbscsix 83M 59M cpu4 53 0 0:01:08 1.5% sqlldr/1
  1610 bbscsix 83M 59M sleep 53 0 0:01:09 1.5% sqlldr/1
  1607 bbscsix 83M 59M sleep 53 0 0:01:07 1.4% sqlldr/1
 11008 orartxs 5304M 5224M sleep 59 0 1:01:23 1.2% oracle/14
   741 orartxs 5288M 5231M cpu16 59 0 0:01:56 1.1% oracle/1
 11004 orartxs 5294M 5223M sleep 59 0 0:33:31 0.8% oracle/258
 11002 orartxs 5299M 5228M sleep 59 0 0:32:56 0.4% oracle/258
 11006 orartxs 5295M 5223M sleep 59 0 0:22:06 0.3% oracle/258
  5060 orabils 5294M 5219M sleep 59 0 0:05:05 0.0% oracle/258
   497 root 9928K 3864K sleep 59 0 0:01:01 0.0% sshd2/1
  1729 root 4864K 4512K cpu18 39 0 0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
 10998 orartxs 5288M 5229M sleep 59 0 0:11:40 0.0% oracle/1
  5106 orabils 5287M 5229M sleep 59 0 0:11:44 0.0% oracle/1
 NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
    34 orartxs 145G 143G 40% 3:20:31 16%
    21 bbscsix 373M 260M 0.1% 0:04:43 5.8%
    43 orabils 217G 214G 60% 1:07:49 0.0%
    64 root 466M 150M 0.0% 0:26:56 0.0%
     1 mathura 1392K 1048K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
     1 smmsp 7424K 1152K 0.0% 0:00:01 0.0%
     2 daemon 7208K 2200K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
Total: 166 processes, 1962 lwps, load averages: 2.82, 2.36, 1.91

# ptree -a 1614
1 /sbin/init
  1614 oracleSHRTXPRD (LOCAL=NO)

Server info are:
# uname -a
SunOS birmingham904 5.10 Generic_118822-26 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V890

Regards,
Anshul

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