The swap area is a supplement to the physical memory, but when you are using
shared memory, swap area is allocated as ³backing² for that shared memory.
So, on systems running Oracle, you¹ll usually see swap space somewhat larger
than the SGA in use, even when absolutely nothing is going on...
on 5/14/03 2:27 PM, Deshpande, Kirti at kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com wrote:
> SWAP is used by the Operating System.
> Almost all OSs today, follow a 'Virtual Memory' model. The swap area on disk
> supplements the actual physical memory.
>
> - Kirti
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Edouard Dormidontov [mailto:dg_at_servocomp.ru]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 2:12 AM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>> Subject: What uses swap file?
>>
>> SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.7
>> top:
>> Memory: 3072 real, 49M free, 4231M swap in use, 131M swap free
>> ----------------------
>> What utility is it possible to look that uses a file?
>> Like Task Manager in Win2K?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ed
>
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