what sort of filesystem are you using? thanks -- 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 >