How to tell virtual memory on Solaris

15 June 2009
by Gavin Colborne

Problem
You want to know how much Virtual Memory is available on your Solaris server.
Solution
You simply need to run the command “ulimit -a”.
This should output something like the below,  in this you can see the reference to the Virtual Memory.

core file size (blocks)     unlimited
data seg size (kbytes)      unlimited
file size (blocks)          unlimited
open files                  1024
pipe size (512 bytes)       10
stack size (kbytes)         8192
cpu time (seconds)          unlimited
max user processes          29995
virtual memory (kbytes)     unlimited

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