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Memory consumption on Solaris-10
Hello,
We have two Solaris-10 x86 servers with below details, both are on VMWare -
bad-server - 4 GB memory and 2 vCPU
good-server - 16 GM memory and 4 vCPU
There is an application running on both servers, which query something and read from a file. Queries are failing on bad-server, while good-server is fine. If I check sar reports on bad-server, total memory utilization is never going higher than 30%.
Upon further investigation, we see that once PID 1243 (this is process id of that application) consumes 900 MB of RSS (from prstat output), queries starts failing. We attached that PID with truss and found below line
Thanks in advance.
We have two Solaris-10 x86 servers with below details, both are on VMWare -
bad-server - 4 GB memory and 2 vCPU
good-server - 16 GM memory and 4 vCPU
There is an application running on both servers, which query something and read from a file. Queries are failing on bad-server, while good-server is fine. If I check sar reports on bad-server, total memory utilization is never going higher than 30%.
Upon further investigation, we see that once PID 1243 (this is process id of that application) consumes 900 MB of RSS (from prstat output), queries starts failing. We attached that PID with truss and found below line
/1243: 1.6180 open("/export/correctaddress/data/ltravel.wrk", O_RDONLY) = 23
Thanks in advance.
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They are on same cluster, but different Storage group. I got confirmation from VMWare admin that storage policy and setting are same for both datastores.
I did a write test and read test on both servers with "time dd ....... ..... ...." command and both are showing us almost same time to execute complete (when there is no issue, i.e. when RSS is less than 800 MB). Didn't got chance to run and test dd during time of problem.
So, I was not able to prove, if it is a storage issue.
So, I was not able to prove, if it is a storage issue.
Just to remember, storage groups under VMware are sharing with other Virtual servers. When the problem occurs, there may be many servers using the same storage disks, which caused disk performance issue.
I just checked, there are 5 VMs in each datastores. At VMWare level, as well as storage level, I do not see peak in memory or CPU utilizing peaking in past 7 days. Both datastores are coming from same storage, with same policies applied on both.
I can dig more, or probably can open case with Storage vendor. But before that, I would like to see, if there is no issue on OS side, which is not the case right now.
How will I explain that, once it will reach to certain memory utilization, application starts taking longer time in opening one file ?
I can dig more, or probably can open case with Storage vendor. But before that, I would like to see, if there is no issue on OS side, which is not the case right now.
How will I explain that, once it will reach to certain memory utilization, application starts taking longer time in opening one file ?
Check patch level between the two. Your VMWare admin should be able to show the storage performance when your server had issues. Those 5 VMs in each datastores are not identical, so the performance are random.
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