Re: what is memory being used for?

One more idea. Check if anybody is using PL/SQL tables, they are notorious memory hogs.

In article <90jj32$mft$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,   yong321_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Can you simply look at v$sqlarea and find the culprit SQL (or SQLs)?
> Look at the columns for persistent and runtime memory. Which ones have
> the highest usage? Tune the SQL.
>
> Yong Huang
> yong321_at_yahoo.com
>
> In article <90j5ap$9h1$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>,
> gdas_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Could someone provide any tips on analyzing memory usage problems?
 We
> > have a dev system (8.1.5 on NT) with 1 gig of physical ram. SGA is
> > sized at about 1/3 the physical ram. This morning I noticed the
> > machine was running at almost 2 gigs of memory with heavy swap
 activity.
> > Looking at v$systat and v$sesstat, it appears all this memory is
> > allocated to session uga & pga for the sessions. The number of
> > sessions does not look out of the ordinary (about 45). We are not
> > running in MTS mode.
> >
> > Does anyone have any tips which would allow me to drilldown further
> > into this? Or is session uga/pga memory as far as I can go? Is
 there
> > a way to look at a session and see exactly what it's uga/pga memory
 is
> > being used for?
> >
> > I don't recall noticing this problem before so I assume a developer
> > introduced some code recently that has caused this.
> >
> > I appreciate any advice on what I might want to look for.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gavin
>
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