Re: oracle process's memory size on Unix

Tanya,

What's the OS? Do you know what the equivalent command for Solaris. I also found the pmap <pid> (/usr/proc/bin/pmap) command useful.

Thanks
Naren

Tanya Injac wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> With the command:
> ps -aux | grep ora
> you can see the real size of a process in the column RSS (the resident
> memory size for each oracle process).
> All ora processes are attached to shared memory and you can check number of
> processes attached to the SGA in the column NATTCH, with the command:
> ipcs -ma | grep ora
> In the column SEGSZ, you can see the real memory size of the SGA for the
> oracle instance.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Tanya
>
> --
> Tanya Injac
> Oracle Developer/DBA
> Unisys NZ Ltd.
>
> guo_at_andrews.edu wrote in article
> <Pine.GSO.3.94.980510134711.24370A-100000_at_deepika.squonk.net>...
> > Does anyone know if it is a easy way to check how much memory the oracle
> > process actually takes? For example, ps -el tells you SZ (memory size),
> > my question is how you know how much memory is shared memory, how much is
> > just used by the individual process?
> >
> > Thanks for your response.
Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 09:28:31 CDT