Re: Rookie Question - Memory Usage

<richard.drouillard_at_gmail.com> wrote in message news:1172500557.188542.298660_at_s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
> Good Day All,
>
> Long time reader, first time poster :)
>
> I am using 10g server on an aix 5.3 box. Is it normal that oracle
> consistently uses up all the RAM on my machine. I am constantly
> getting warnings from my OEM saying that memory usage is in the
> warning levels, always above 97%. I've added up how much the PGA/SGA
> should be taking up for each of the 4 instances on this machine and
> it's only about half of what my RAM usage is. Oracle server is the
> only thing running on this box. Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> - Rich
>

It's probably the AIX filesystem buffer cache that eats up all the memory, and that is perfectly normal on an AIX box with a default configuration. Check the memory usage with the commands "svmon -G" and "vmo -a" to see the VMM settings.

HTH
Matthias Received on Mon Feb 26 2007 - 13:55:30 CST