how to check solaris memory usage?

**steven** · 02-19-2009, 10:57 AM

**whcdavid** · 02-26-2009, 11:36 AM

You can use prastat -a command.

**Alexandre** · 02-26-2009, 04:22 PM

You can use

sar -r -f sa25

sar -u 10 60

mpstat 10 60

**joe** · 07-13-2009, 09:56 PM

more help:

Solaris display Memory Size (RAM size):

prtconf | grep Mem
or

prtconf|grep -i mem
Available page sizes (SWAP) for Solaris:

pagesize -a
Display RAM Size on HP-UX:

dmesg
Display RAM Size on AIX

lsdev -C|grep mem
Now if memory device is mem0, then type

lsattr -El mem0

All linux distro:

free
Also almost all UNIX system support vmstat command, use vmstat to get more info.

vmstat