I try to keep the total SGAs of all instances below 50% of RAM for Windowz
machines, but maybe that's another urban legend.  WinNT tried to keep 95%
of its RAM empty.  It thinks that it's a heavy lifting operating system
with thousands of users clamoring for its attention (sort of like most IT
pros) so on the first free machine cycle it will write the RAM's contents
to disk and free up the RAM.  Simplistic explanation -- but good enough for
Windows.  Unless Bill Gates and Larry Ellison have kissed and made up, I
would expect W2K to show the same behavior.


                                                                                       
    
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I don't know about W2K.  All our databases are on Solaris.  I try to keep
my SGA's at about 25% of physical memory.

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My bad.  I didn't notice that he was doing a select * from  v$sga and
thought that it was the init.ora parameters.

My comments on the SGA size were based on WinNT 4.0.  I assume, from your
comments, that W2K is better about not swapping the RAM out to disk.




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You  have one gigabyte of memory on your machine and your SGA�  is��over
700 MB.� That seems excessive�� I doubt you  need 640�megabytes' worth of
block buffers.� There is nothing wrong by  the way with nearly exhausting
physical memory.�� However improperly  assigning it is a problem, as is
excessive paging.

Ian  MacGregor
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Hi gurus,

My Production Box has 1Gb Ram  with single 933Mhz PIII processor , though
the db is not that  big (4 GB), the oracle process is taking too much of
memory, causing server to slow down on peak times of the  day, and even
after words, tonight, I looked up the memory which  ORACLE.EXE has taken,
its almost 900 MB, why is that so ???

The last restart was a month ago  as far as I remember, is  this an
OPERATING SYSTEM tuning problem or database tuning is  required?

MY pagefile size is almost 2 GB,  but the STATISTICS show that only 4-5 MB
of physical memory is free, means the  most of the physical memory is used
in ORACLE processes,

The sga size is  following,

SQL> select * from  v$sga

NAME����������������  VALUE

--------------------  ----------

Fixed  Size���������������  75804

Variable  Size��������� 90701824

Database  Buffers����� 655360000

Redo  Buffers�������������  77824

If db tuning is needed,  from what point I should start,

Also, I  haven't  analyzed the schemas from long,�  The occasion DEAD LOCK
problems also show up,

Can anybody shed some light,  where the choke point is ???

Help and suggestions  welcomed,

Thanks in  Advance,

Arslan  Zaheer Dar

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Database Administrator

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital &  Research Centre

www.shaukatkhanum.org.pk

+ 92 (042) 5180725 - 34 Ext: 2323





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