Re: Oracle eats up my RAM

sun solaris has a funny way of managing memory. It asigns the free memory to all of the processes. If you summarise the memory of the processes you'll see that the outcome is larger than the amount of physical ram. The extra memory is not exclusive to the process and can be claimed by processes that need it. So you don't have to worry about this.

If you want to check if the system is low on memory you'll have to check for paging and swapping, if this is the case you need more RAM. Search the internet for more acurate information about sun solaris memory management. ;-)

Rob

"Jerra" <jerra_at_aland.net> wrote in message news:8jchs9$qdj$1_at_gandalf.alcom.aland.fi...
> Hi,
>
> Solaris 2.6
> Oracle 8.05
>
> We have about 50 corba servers connected to the db. Each of the process
 has
> a size about 95M (value given by the Top program).
> sort_area_size = 1M
> dblock size 8K
> db_block buffers = 6000
> multiblock read count = 8
> shared sql pool 25mb
>
> The server has 1Gb memory and it swaps. There are some other programs
> running of course, regarding the oracle processes how can they be made
> smaller?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> /Jerra
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 28 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT