any chance filecache/pagecache taken by os On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Stalin <stalinsk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks. Checking v$pgastat, maximum pga allocated has been around 3.5G, > still that doesn't add up to 29G. > > Any other ideas? > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:14 AM, D'Hooge Freek <Freek.DHooge@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Yes, pga_aggregate_target is kind of a soft limit. >> For certain memory requests it will have no other option to give memory to >> the process requesting it. >> >> You can see the current allocation and how many times oracle had to exceed >> the pga_aggregate_target limit in v$pgastat. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> Freek D'Hooge >> Uptime >> Oracle Database Administrator >> email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx >> tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 >> http://www.uptime.be >> disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer >> --- >> >