Dear tech gurus,
I'm not sure if this is a problem or not, but it's certainly a puzzle to me.
I'm seeing quite a big inconsistency between the memory utilisation as shown in the ST06 memory snapshot display and what's shown as used in the ST06 TOP CPU display.
For example, at the moment the ST06 memory snapshot for one of my application servers shows the following:
However, if I go into ST06's top CPU display and look at the resident memory sizes for the work processes, I can see this:
If I add up the ResidentSz (shown in KB) then I get a total of just over 50GB.
In short, therefore, TOP is showing 50GB used (just by the work processes) whereas the memory snapshot seems to be showing about 23GB used in total.
Is there something wrong with the way that ST06 (or top) reports memory utilisation for processes?
The app server is running Linux and is virtualised using VMware.
Thanks,
Kevin