I was making a release today to one of my servers at Joyent. As part of the release I ran a short script written in Java. Java complained that it could not allocate memory to create a JVM! This is a bad sign on a production system. After some poking using top and the much more useful (on Solaris) prstat, I discovered that /lib/svc/bin/svc.configd was taking up 95% of my memory! It appears to have a memory leak.
I checked out the brief man page. It seemed pretty important so I was afraid to kill the process. Some googling around for a restart solution proved my fears baseless. It's OK to kill this process. It will restart by itself.
I killed svc.configd and it came back right away without incident. My memory was freed up.
Time to start monitoring memory usage on my opensolaris zones.
