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Re: Memory reporting

From: Connor McDonald <connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 18:15:49 +0800
Message-ID: <3843A3D5.7031@yahoo.com>


markp7832_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> 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.
> --
> Mark D. Powell -- The only advice that counts is the advice that
> you follow so follow your own advice --
>
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> Before you buy.

Under /usr/proc/bin I think there is pmap which can give better information
--



Connor McDonald
"These views mine, no-one elses etc etc" connor_mcdonald_at_yahoo.com

"Some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 04:15:49 CST

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