Re: Memory usage of Oracle processes

I'm not a UNIX system admin. But I believe you have to use ipcs -b (on Solaris) to find out the shared memory size and subtract that from what you see in top. The reason is Oracle processes share memory. You can't simply add them up and say that's all Oracle takes.

Also make sure you're looking at resident size (RES in top), not virtual size (SIZE). I don't think shared memory can go virtual. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Yong Huang
yhuang_at_indigopool.com

Lee, Jieun <jieunyee_at_cyber-link.co.kr> wrote in message news:9xni5.55$%A.1935_at_news2.bora.net...
> Hi!
> When I monitor the database server processes using top command ,
> each oracle process shows size of over 230M .
> It suffer from memory lack in peak times as the server has 1.5G real
 memory.
> I checked my Linux system in the same way , the sizes are under 20M.
> Which factor does decide the size in Oracle configuration or O/S ?
>
> Have a nice day.
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Received on Fri Aug 04 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT