RE: High Memory Usage

Hi,

Yes, pga_aggregate_target is kind of a soft limit.
For certain memory requests it will have no other option to give memory to the 
process requesting it.

You can see the current allocation and how many times oracle had to exceed the 
pga_aggregate_target limit in v$pgastat.


Regards,


Freek D'Hooge
Uptime
Oracle Database Administrator
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Stalin
Sent: vrijdag 26 augustus 2011 10:02
To: oracle-l
Subject: High Memory Usage

All, 

I'm trying to figure out high memory usage on one of the DB servers we have and 
wondering if pga_aggregate_target could ever exceed from what's allocated.

We have sga_target set to 16G and pga_a_t set to 2G, however from statspack, i 
see pga usage to be close to 3G. Is that normal. I have posted relevant 
sections from statspack for reference.  Though i see only 59% of total memory 
being used, vmstat reports 29G being used. Any idea what could be causing it. 
This node is a dedicated DB server and only one DB runs on it. 

Memory Statistics                       Begin          End
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                ------------ ------------
                  Host Mem (MB):     32,640.0     32,640.0
                   SGA use (MB):     16,315.7     16,315.7
                   PGA use (MB):      2,854.4      2,981.5
    % Host Mem used for SGA+PGA:         58.7         59.1
-------------------------------------------------------------
Instance Activity Stats 
workarea memory allocated                   0        6,043

Statistic                                      Total     per Second    per Trans
--------------------------------- ------------------ -------------- ------------
workarea executions - onepass                      0            0.0          0.0
workarea executions - optimal                  7,635            2.1          0.0

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Thanks,

Stalin

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