The Solaris Platform Is Disk Bound - Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Troubleshooting Manual

8 — Troubleshooting Solaris and Windows platforms
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Procedure 8-4 Problem: There is not enough swap space added or

the Solaris platform is disk bound

You can add swap space to improve memory performance. For a more permanent
solution, add more RAM. Use this procedure when:
When you allocate a file to be used as emergency swap space, the amount of swap
space available increases without reformatting a disk.
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To stop the vmstat command, press CTRL-C.
insufficient disk space causes memory performance issues
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insufficient swap space was installed, or the network load requires more swap
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Note — Before creating a new swap file, run the swap -l and swap -s
commands to determine how much disk space is currently allocated.
Then perform the swap -s command after creating a new swap file to
verify that the new emergency swap space was correctly allocated.
As root, type:
df -k ↵
The displayed information lists the capacity and usage of the available disk space.
Determine where there is enough disk space to create a swap file.
Change directories by typing:
cd /swapdirectory ↵
where swapdirectory is the name of the directory where you are going to create a new swap file
Create a new swap file by typing:
mkfile swapfilesizem swapfilename ↵
where
swapfilesize is the size of the swap file you are creating. The size of the swapfilesize is followed
by an m to denote Mbytes.
swapfilename is the name of the swap file you are creating
The vfstab file controls which partitions are mounted. Edit the vfstab file:
i Use a text editor, such as vi or textedit, to edit the vfstab file by typing:
vi /etc/vfstab ↵
ii Move the cursor to the last line in the vfstab file and type:
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