In article <01bf3b23$2f912a00$3e35a99e_at_gal159a>,
"Frederic DEBRUS" <frederic.debrus_at_ces-cdr.be> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> When a look to the process memory usage on my server it report
>
> SunOS sunprod 5.6 Generic_105181-15 sun4u 11/26/99
> PID Size Resident Shared Private Process
> 26265 75080k 73632k 8016k 65616k oracleprod (LOCAL=NO)
> 25781 74976k 73576k 8016k 65560k oracleprod (LOCAL=NO)
> 25791 74928k 73472k 8016k 65456k oracleprod (LOCAL=NO)
> 27531 74784k 73416k 8016k 65400k oracleprod (LOCAL=NO)
>
> I think this Unix tool (memps) and others are misreporting the
Private and
> Shared memory amount
> on Oracle process.
>
> Have you heard of this before ?
>
> I guess that the memory tool provide by Sun wrongly report the Oracle
SGA
> (shared memory) as private memory for every process.
>
> Can't Unix see Oracle shared memory as shared ?
>
> Any idea ? THANKS !
>
>
Your conclusions are correct in that on many platforms a lot of the
Unix tools reports shared memory as part of the process. You may want
to check the archives as I believe there was a recent post that
explained how to see or derive better numbers on a Sun.
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Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 09:04:36 CST
