topic P4300 G2 Critical Memory Utilization in StoreVirtual Storage

P4300 G2 Critical Memory Utilization

Felipe Martinez — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 01:29:40 GMT

Hello:

I have a Critital alarm on a P4300 G2 storage node. The object name es Memory Utilization, the detail says "The system memory utilization (96.0052%) status is ´Critical´ ". The date of this message is two days before however the node is working now, but the critical indicator continue on the CMC, Wath this message means? and how can i clear the indicator in the CMC.

Any idea?

Felipe Mtz.

Re: P4300 G2 Critical Memory Utilization

oikjn — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:38:18 GMT

if you just upgraded to v12, I believe the memory utilization is higher for the OS than before. Only "solution" is to add more memory to the system.

Re: P4300 G2 Critical Memory Utilization

M. N. — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:07:59 GMT

Thank you.

No component (HW or SW) was upgraded in the last months, so I presume that the problem is elsewhere.

Thank you, anyway...

M.N.

Re: P4300 G2 Critical Memory Utilization

s_mcleod — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 21:54:37 GMT

this brings back memories...

The P4300 G2's are severaly underspeced - We've always had performance problems with them since day 1.

One thing that helped was installing more RAM - Our units only came with 4GB and a single CPU.

I upped this to 16GB and they now reboot in about half the time.

Re: P4300 G2 Critical Memory Utilization

David_Tocker — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:10:26 GMT

Same, they are triple channel memory so 12gb made sense for us.

Made a good improvement to performance consistency for us.