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 > >