Hi ,
We are seeing high memory usage on our Prod host running RHEL 4. The
host is running Java server
and the application server is consuming around 2.2 G of memory as
reported by top .
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Tasks: 449 total, 1 running, 448 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 12.9% us, 0.1% sy, 0.0% ni, 87.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
0.0% si
Mem: 8160920k total, 8088752k used, 72168k free, 75516k
buffers
Swap: 8388600k total, 3651908k used, 4736692k free, 807556k
cached
PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S
COMMAND
31712 nobody 16 0 100 286:20.91 14.4 1458m 1.1g 12m S
java_daemon
18427 nobody 16 0 2 391:17.48 27.7 4334m 2.2g 6200 S
java_daemon
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sar is also reporting around 40 percent swap space being consumed.
This swap space usage varies between 30 percent and 50 percent and it
remains like this always .
But when checked with vmstat I can see no swap activity being taken
place . I monitored for around 15 minutes and can see no swap activity
although sar is reporting around 40 percent swap space being consumed
during that time period.
SAR Output
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12:00:01 AM kbmemfree kbmemused %memused kbbuffers kbcached
kbswpfree kbswpused %swpused kbswpcad
09:10:02 AM 77104 8083816 99.06 79664 821680
4731308 3657292 43.60 1141444
09:20:01 AM 100904 8060016 98.76 73588 803964
4736692 3651908 43.53 1143748
Average: 294668 7866252 96.39 124533 614381
5268537 3120063 37.19 622012
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vmstat output
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procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- ---io---- --
system-- ----cpu----
r b swpd free buff cache si so bi
bo in cs us sy id wa
1 0 3651908 73752 76652 812548 0 0 0 36 1058 655
13 0 87 0
1 0 3651908 69952 76688 813000 38 0 108 300 1181 36129
17 7 76 0
1 0 3651908 73408 76752 813072 0 0 6 143 1178 777
13 0 87 0
1 0 3651908 71696 76756 813036 6 0 6 33 1091
715 13 0 87 0
1 0 3651908 71440 76760 813148 45 0 45 86 1117 676
13 0 87 0
1 0 3651908 73240 76772 813136 0 0 0 17 1078 683
13 0 87 0
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The following are my doubts :
1 Can there be any impact in performance as there is no swap
activity . Also , would like to know why swap space is getting
consumed when there is no swap activity
being taken place . Is it a sign of application leaking memory.
2. Will disabling memory overcommit will help in improving memory usage .
Any clarification will be highly appreciated .
Thanks in Advance
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