RE: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-29 Thread Rich Holland
]] On Behalf Of Miller, Jay Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit? Hi everyone, I was always under the impression that the only concern with shmmax was that it be large enough for the SGA

RE: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-29 Thread Connor McDonald
quite a bit with paging/swapping. Rich -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Miller, Jay Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 1:49 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit

Re: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-29 Thread Tim Gorman
user processes apply against shmmax limit? Hi everyone, I was always under the impression that the only concern with shmmax was that it be large enough for the SGA to fit into it. One of my System Administrators has just told me that the individual user processes (i.e., the PGA

Re: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-25 Thread Jared Still
... and we butt headlong into another fine myth, that is that the SGA must fit into one segment. On Sunday 24 November 2002 15:53, Richard Ji wrote: if that SGA + user processes shmmax the system will start swapping. That's not true. If your SGA is bigger than shmmax, it just means the

RE: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-24 Thread Miller, Jay
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit? Hi everyone, I was always under the impression that the only concern with shmmax was that it be large enough for the SGA to fit into it. One of my System Administrators has just told me that the individual

RE: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-24 Thread Richard Ji
if that SGA + user processes shmmax the system will start swapping. That's not true. If your SGA is bigger than shmmax, it just means the SGA will be fit into multiple shared memory segments. Doesn't necessary mean the system will start swapping. Is the scan rate going up? Richard

Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-23 Thread Miller, Jay
Hi everyone, I was always under the impression that the only concern with shmmax was that it be large enough for the SGA to fit into it. One of my System Administrators has just told me that the individual user processes (i.e., the PGA since we're not using multi-threaded server) get added to the

Re: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-23 Thread Tim Gorman
Your Sys Admin is wrong. The SHMxxx OS parameters refer to shared memory, not private process heap memory. On most UNIX variants, the ulimit command is used to limit the consumption of memory for heap, stack, etc... - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL

Re: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
most disturbing is the thought that this person IS the sysadmin with this level of knowledge. --- Tim Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your Sys Admin is wrong. The SHMxxx OS parameters refer to shared memory, not private process heap memory. On most UNIX variants, the ulimit command is

Re: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-23 Thread Jared Still
Tim, Unless shared servers (MTS) are in use, in which case either the UGA or PGA is in the SGA. To be honest, I can't recall which, and I'm too lazy to go look it up right now. But MTS will consume memory on a per user basis, though the poster didn't mention it. And I'm quite sure you know

RE: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit?

2002-11-23 Thread John Kanagaraj
** -Original Message- From: Miller, Jay [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 10:49 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Do user processes apply against shmmax limit? Hi everyone, I was always under the impression that the only concern with shmmax