you need to learn about *shared* memory, all these meomry tools dont deal with it very well. On 2/13/06, hitender chugh <chughhk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am not sure whether it is the right forum but I want to know if any one > has experienced this kind of problem and may provide guidance/suggestions. > I have a new HP-UX server on which I have installed Oracle 9i. On a small > database of SGA around 150 MB, each oracle process(dbwr,smon etc.) and a > sqlplus connection takes around 20mb memory (RSS) according to Glance > software. >