Re: High Memory Usage

this prstat -a output from our server which has 192 GB physical memory

 NPROC USERNAME SWAP RSS MEMORY TIME CPU   1420 rac10gr4 84G 80G 42% 287:44:04 15%

ps -ef|grep rac10gr4|wc -l

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it takes into consideration shared memory

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Adric Norris <landstander668_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:23, LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> since its solaris you could try run prstat -a, this will show you the
>> memory consumed by each OS user
>>
>
> That brings back some fun memories. :) I once had a SysAdmin complain that
> Oracle was using 100% of the memory on a Sun box, which was equipped with 64
> GB of physical memory and configured for 8 GB of swap space. The "prstat
> -a" output, which he helpfully included in his email, clearly showed Oracle
> consuming 1.5 TB of memory.
>
> Needless to say, that command has absolutely no knowledge of shared memory.
>
> --
> "I'm too sexy for my code." -Awk Sed Fred
>
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