On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Karl Arao <karlarao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes too bad it's not available on <RHEL5, the same way I'm feeling for > iotop here http://people.redhat.com/jolsa/iotop/ which is a very useful > tool > > About 3 years ago I wrote a Perl script to try an calculate how much memory was being used by oracle processes on a linux server. That brief education was enough to teach me that linux memory accounting appears to have been written by the likes of accountants from Enron. Attached is a script that works on RH 4. I don't think I've tried it on RH 5. At the time I thought it about 85-90% accurate, which was enough for my purposes. Give it a try if you like. Please let me know if you think it has glaring errors. Jared