memory is not released on sun fire 280R

From: jordir@fib.upc.edu
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 11:18:42 EDT


Dear sirs,

We have two servers Sun Fire 280R with Solaris 8 with same problem:
server are not releasing memory.

For example, at Listing 1, we can seee how free memory always are
decreasing
but never increasing.

Problem is that when server is up during several days, there is small
memory to work, and server is freezed. Not crashed, but I must
reboot pushing reset button.

In Listint 2, we have a monitor process, that shows free memory before
freeze moment.

We have patched system with lattest Solaris 8 Recommended.

Thanks in advanced.

Jordi Renye
Facultat Informatica Barcelona - Universitat Politecnica Catalunya
(Faculty of Computer Science)
Catalonia - Spain

Listing 1
======
Memory: 2048M real, 999M free, 828M swap in use, 4886M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 610M free, 1191M swap in use, 4500M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 666M free, 1151M swap in use, 4539M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 651M free, 1164M swap in use, 4525M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 660M free, 1154M swap in use, 4534M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 614M free, 1196M swap in use, 4490M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 582M free, 1203M swap in use, 4482M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 645M free, 1157M swap in use, 4528M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 633M free, 1159M swap in use, 4525M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 608M free, 1181M swap in use, 4503M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 611M free, 1177M swap in use, 4506M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 620M free, 1158M swap in use, 4524M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 609M free, 1167M swap in use, 4514M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 573M free, 1201M swap in use, 4479M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 608M free, 1160M swap in use, 4517M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 606M free, 1160M swap in use, 4516M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 579M free, 1160M swap in use, 4515M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 594M free, 1169M swap in use, 4505M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 599M free, 1164M swap in use, 4509M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 598M free, 1164M swap in use, 4509M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 596M free, 1166M swap in use, 4507M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 594M free, 1166M swap in use, 4506M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 591M free, 1169M swap in use, 4502M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 593M free, 1166M swap in use, 4504M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 592M free, 1166M swap in use, 4503M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 592M free, 1164M swap in use, 4505M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 587M free, 1169M swap in use, 4499M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 588M free, 1165M swap in use, 4503M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 565M free, 1187M swap in use, 4480M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 523M free, 1227M swap in use, 4439M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 556M free, 1191M swap in use, 4473M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 559M free, 1188M swap in use, 4476M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 548M free, 1198M swap in use, 4465M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 565M free, 1179M swap in use, 4483M swap free
#

Listing 2
======
Memory: 2048M real, 18M free, 1162M swap in use, 3679M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 19M free, 1125M swap in use, 3715M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 18M free, 1125M swap in use, 3715M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 15M free, 1128M swap in use, 3713M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 18M free, 1126M swap in use, 3715M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 20M free, 1126M swap in use, 3715M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 19M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 18M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 15M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 18M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 19M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 16M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 14M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 16M free, 1127M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 17M free, 1126M swap in use, 3714M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 17M free, 1129M swap in use, 3712M swap free
Memory: 2048M real, 15M free, 1128M swap in use, 3713M swap free
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