Jim, Thanks . Here is a snapshot from vmsat 5 o/p during the failure. I am not sure how this is going to be formatted on the forum.
kthr memory page disk faults cpu r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr rm s0 s1 s2 in sy cs us sy id [pre] 0 0 0 62386728 56443136 338 3941 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19267 85670 37553 10 7 83 0 0 0 56037624 55132248 52 13591 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3674 21572 1283 30 46 24 1 0 0 34962096 53029088 16 11773 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4725 16248 1491 13 78 9 1 0 0 22086880 51409376 15 8730 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4976 14733 1741 9 76 16 2 0 0 12591624 50035952 81 7687 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4551 22864 1684 7 68 25 2 0 0 4891536 48774296 33 6575 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3883 25456 2479 6 57 37 [b]400 0 0 2664312 48843472 12 3134 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4154 9433 2123 3 35 62 [/b]143 0 0 9577832 49808640 31 662 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8319 8140 1282 1 95 4 0 0 0 9863824 49818808 64 5725 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12599 41575 24975 7 25 69 0 0 0 8854032 49553696 16 86 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5499 114000 12349 5 35 60 [/pre] runqueue is bombarded. here is the progression on thenumber of processes forked every 5sec number of application processes running (sampled every 5 sec) ============================================== 5 8 7 7 7 7 21 51 55 132 622 896 1121 1293 1142 Thank you -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ dtrace-discuss mailing list dtrace-discuss@opensolaris.org