Re: Who took my memory away?

On 15 Dec 2006 13:06:32 -0800, joebayeriI_at_hotmail.com wrote:

>Linux 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386
>GNU/Linux
>
>I just installed Oracle 10g.0.2 on it, and I have two instances on it.
>It is empty database, w/o releasing to public usage yet.
>SQL> show parameter sga
>
>NAME TYPE VALUE
>------------------------------------ -----------
>------------------------------
>lock_sga boolean FALSE
>pre_page_sga boolean FALSE
>sga_max_size big integer 776M
>sga_target big integer 300M
>SQL>
>
>So for 2 instance, I should only use 1.6G.
>But,
>
>top - 16:04:55 up 9 days, 23:27, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00,
>0.00
>Tasks: 154 total, 1 running, 153 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
>Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi,
>0.0% si
>Mem: 16629416k total, 14481520k used, 2147896k free, 214612k
>buffers
>Swap: 8388576k total, 4k used, 8388572k free, 13794444k cached
>
>I have 16G of memory, but 14G were used. How are using it?
>
>Your help is highly appreciated.

 If you press shift-m then 'c' then "top" will likely give you a clue...

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