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Re: Huge Swap area being used despite having available ram (Solaris 8 , ora9.2.)

From: GeoPappas <PappasG_at_gmail.com>
Date: 30 Mar 2005 08:40:57 -0800
Message-ID: <1112200857.213597.104260@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 





>> My three questions are:

>> 1) why is oracle using so much swap?




>'Cuz it does. Why is this a concern of yours?



I would tend to agree with Mr. Rowland.  I could be wrong, but my
understanding is that virtual memory (aka SWAP) is used ONLY after
physical memory (aka RAM) is used up.  So I too would be concerned that
SWAP is being used before RAM is totally used up.
Received on Wed Mar 30 2005 - 10:40:57 CST












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