If I'm not mistaken, this figure includes the size of the shared memory segment from the SGA. Take the output of the "oracle" line of "ipcs -a" (hopefully you'll only have one!) and subtract it from the process size to get a better idea of the non-shared memory size of the process.
Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 3:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L hi i have a system that has no active users at this point of time. the memory used by the dbw process is very high leading to a lot of swapping when any process starts. here are the spces version:9.2.0.4 os:Linux 2.4.9-e.24smp o/p from top: 1:44pm up 29 days, 23:55, 4 users, load average: 1.73, 1.68, 1.35 132 processes: 131 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 24.4% user, 2.2% system, 0.0% nice, 72.2% idle CPU1 states: 0.5% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 98.0% idle CPU2 states: 0.0% user, 0.1% system, 0.0% nice, 99.4% idle CPU3 states: 0.3% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 98.3% idle Mem: 3089964K av, 3083380K used, 6584K free, 846848K shrd, 193448K buff Swap: 2048152K av, 1652K used, 2046500K free 1852468K cached sga size: Total System Global Area 1084823632 bytes Fixed Size 452688 bytes Variable Size 335544320 bytes Database Buffers 738197504 bytes Redo Buffers 10629120 bytes pga aggregate size:700M and ps o/p of dbw process USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND oracle 4062 0.0 16.4 1131260 508168 ? S 10:16 0:06 ora_dbw0_revenue please advise. what is really going on. thanks sai -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
