> 
> Can anyone explain why the sum of the RSS column from
> prstat -Z is only around 10G, but vmstat shows only 8G of my
> 64G as free?

vmstat will report you the free list. 


> root at globalzone:[/export/home/username]# vmstat -p 3
>      memory           page          executable     
> anonymous      filesystem
>    swap  free  re  mf  fr  de  sr  epi  epo  epf  api  apo 
> apf  fpi  fpo  fpf
>  88510216 30142216 183 815 6 0  0   26    0    0  794    0 
>   0   47    7    6
>  61581032 8646744 183 628 0 0   0  455    0    0 11012   0 
>   0 4003    0    0


8GB free out of 64GB. Check for all memory consumers:
userland processes, IPC, kernel memory (ZFS), File system cache...
To do that, run as root: # mdb -k and hit ::memstat 

Does it make sense ?

stefan

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