memory stats differ from program to program.

From: David.Knight@clubcorp.com
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 11:25:38 EST


Managers,
 I have one GS140 and two GS160's running Tru64 5.1 / TruCluster 5.1 that
at times show different memory stats. listed below you will find several
different performance tools that report different info. Can any one
enlighten me on why this would be?

Thanks in advance,
-David

S Y D - System Display Program syd5.0 shows:
Free 4573128 K

/usr/local/bin/top shows:
Memory: Real: 7877M/14G act/tot Virtual: 4745M/28510M use/tot Free: 68M

monitor shows:
Mem: act inact wired free Forks: fork vfork
    8118912 4458552 1731336 25464

collect shows:
# MEMORY STATISTICS
#(<------------ MegaBytes -------------> <--------- Pages/sec -------->)
# Free Swap Act InAc Wire UBC PI PO Zer Re COW SW HIT PP ALL
     70 11804 5024 4354 1694 2854 43 0 534 0 83 1 433 0 0

vmstat shows:
# vmstat
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
  procs memory pages intr cpu
  r w u act free wire fault cow zero react pin pout in sy cs us
sy id
 10 3K 170 1M 7757 216K 1G 188M 378M 9M 252M 493K 984 14K 4K 13
5 82

vmstat -P shows:

# vmstat -P

Total Physical Memory = 14336.00 M
                      = 1835008 pages

Physical Memory Clusters:

start_pfn end_pfn type size_pages / size_bytes
         0 256 pal 256 / 2.00M
       256 1834924 os 1834668 / 14333.34M
   1834924 1835008 pal 84 / 672.00k

Physical Memory Use:

 start_pfn end_pfn type size_pages / size_bytes
       256 288 scavenge 32 / 256.00k
       288 1110 text 822 / 6.42M
      1110 1290 data 180 / 1.41M
      1290 1740 bss 450 / 3.52M
      1740 1963 kdebug 223 / 1.74M
      1963 1969 cfgmgmt 6 / 48.00k
      1969 1971 locks 2 / 16.00k
      1971 1985 pmap 14 / 112.00k
      1985 5824 unixtable 3839 / 29.99M
      5824 5830 logs 6 / 48.00k
      5830 34980 vmtables 29150 / 227.73M
     34980 1834924 managed 1799944 / 14062.06M
                             ============================
         Total Physical Memory Use: 1834668 / 14333.34M

Managed Pages Break Down:

       free pages = 6621
     active pages = 646226
   inactive pages = 557320
      wired pages = 216292
        ubc pages = 365324
        ==================
            Total = 1791783

WIRED Pages Break Down:

   vm wired pages = 22035
  ubc wired pages = 0
  meta data pages = 54988
     malloc pages = 59817
     contig pages = 165
    user ptepages = 76919
  kernel ptepages = 1862
    free ptepages = 8
        ==================
            Total = 215794



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