Re: Help Interpreting Windows Trace

  • From: Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:18 +0200

You are right that 800 MB does not reflect the instance memory.
They represent the instance usage and the connections usage.

I meant to say: No, the 800 MB are not used by the kernel but are used
for oracle (instance + connections).

Adar Yechiel
Rechovot, Israel



Niall Litchfield wrote:
> It is indeed the virtual address spacefor user processes. (and only
> 1.2gb of it is left). You should see this change if you reduce the
> kernel allocation to 1gb by use of the /3gb switch in boot.ini (or
> userva in the new boot configuration for windows7/Server2008). I'm
> prtetty certian that this information is returned by the o/s so I
> don't believe we can conclude that the instance memory allocation is
> 800mb, just that 800mb of user processes are running.
> Niall
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     You have 2GB for oracle. The instance use about 0.8 GB now and can
>     grow to 2 GB
>
>     Dion Cho wrote:
>>     I believe that VA stands for virtual address.
>>
>>     You are on the 32bit machine where the maximum address space is
>>     2G. Some part of the address is reserved for the kernel thus you
>>     have around 1.2G remained.
>
>

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