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How do I get memory info in Solaris?
On Solaris, you can use the command prtconf to determine how much physical memory the computer has. This command (located in /usr/sbin) displays the total amount of memory for the computer in megabytes.
How do you calculate total memory?
Check your total RAM capacity
- Click on the Windows Start menu and type in System Information.
- A list of search results pops up, among which is the System Information utility. Click on it.
- Scroll down to Installed Physical Memory (RAM) and see how much memory is installed on your computer.
How do I know if Solaris is virtual or physical?
Use the psrinfo -p command to display the total number of physical processors on a system. Use the psrinfo -pv command to display information about each physical processor on a system, and the virtual processor that is associated with each physical processor.
What is Prtdiag?
The prtdiag command is a UNIX shell command used to display system configuration and diagnostic information. You can use the prtdiag command to display: System configuration, including information about clock frequencies, CPUs, memory, and I/O card types.
How to monitor memory usage / performance in SunOS?
Beware that Solaris uses the swap term to either name the part of disk used to store memory pages that are paged out from RAM or to name the whole virtual memory space, i.e. the swap area plus the part of RAM that is not locked there. Not as detailed as your Linux example but you could use the ::memstat macro in mdb:
How to check memory usage in Solaris 11.2?
A very useful mdb dcmd is ‘ ::memstat ‘ (this command can take several minutes to complete). Below example is from Solaris 11.2.
How should I monitor memory usage / performance?
Last week we decided to add some SunOS ( uname -a = SunOS bbs-sam-belair 5.10 Generic_127128-11 i86pc i386 i86pc) machines into our running munin instance. First off, the machines are pre-configured appliances, so, I want to avoid touching the system too much without supervision of the service provider.