Re: High Memory Usage

  • From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: landstander668@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:07:16 +0200

what version of solaris?

this prstat -a output from our server which has 192 GB physical memory

 NPROC USERNAME  SWAP   RSS MEMORY      TIME  CPU
  1420 rac10gr4   84G   80G    42% 287:44:04  15%

ps -ef|grep rac10gr4|wc -l
    1423

it takes into consideration shared memory

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Adric Norris <landstander668@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 02:23, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> since its solaris you could try run prstat -a, this will show you the
>> memory consumed by each OS user
>>
>
> That brings back some fun memories. :)  I once had a SysAdmin complain that
> Oracle was using 100% of the memory on a Sun box, which was equipped with 64
> GB of physical memory and configured for 8 GB of swap space.  The "prstat
> -a" output, which he helpfully included in his email, clearly showed Oracle
> consuming 1.5 TB of memory.
>
> Needless to say, that command has absolutely no knowledge of shared memory.
>
> --
> "I'm too sexy for my code." -Awk Sed Fred
>
>

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