David, Back to my original question, if it's indeed shared memory, no matter to how many processes it's attached to, I should be able to see it in ipcs output ? Is that a correct statement ? thanks --romas On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:43 PM, David Miller <David.J.Miller@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Roman, > > ISM is indeed shared memory, but it is possible to allocate it and only > use it in one place, i.e. a single process's PGA. Once it's mapped into > the address space, it's just memory (at least mostly). Clearly when > this was implemented, the PGA for each process would use a different > shared memory segment so there wouldn't be collisions. > > As I mentioned before, I'm sure it was done to use large pages. Since > there > are other mechanisms now, it's no longer necessary, which is why it was > obsoleted in 10.2. > > Regards, > > Dave > > Roman Podshivalov wrote, On 10/07/08 18:30: > > David, >> >> In my mind ISM is related to shared memory, could it be used for private >> memory allocation ? >> >> thanks >> --romas >> >> >>