Re: High Memory Usage
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 11:39:33 -0500
Message-ID: <CAJueESrGcgM5vMsTwtdbz4E==n7RzUdnQZLpEnxws_7WVMEfzA_at_mail.gmail.com>
It's been awhile, so it might have been a Solaris 8 box. I didn't think this behaviour had changed under Solaris 10, but could certainly be mistaken.
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:07, LS Cheng <exriscer_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> what version of solaris?
>
> 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
> 1423
>
> 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 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Wed Aug 31 2011 - 11:39:33 CDT