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