Re: High Memory Usage

  • From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: stalinsk@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:26:14 +0200

what sort of filesystem are you using?

thanks

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LSC

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Stalin <stalinsk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Stalin
>
> 11gR2, Solaris 10
>

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