I find it really annoying that I can read through what I've typed and not spot
a painfully obvious error.
With apologies:
"If you're not using page tables ..."
should read
"If you're not using huge pages ..."
You've reported that you're using 18GB of page tables:
"PageTables: 18661352 kB"
That's space for 2,388,653,056 pointers to pages - and each page is current 4KB.
In other words you're holding maps for roughly 9 Terabytes of memory - on a
machine with 512GB of memory.
This happens because every process keeps its own map of the memory it is using.
If you switch to huge pages each pointer would point to 2MB rather than 4KB,
and that 18GB of pointers would have been 37MB.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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Subject: Re: Server is swapping with free memory available
Following up on Niall's comment about huge pages and page tables.
If you're not using page tables then each session has a memory map based on a
4KB page size - and each pointer in the map is 8 bytes.
If it takes 8 bytes for a session to find a 4KB page, for every 512 sessions
you need 4KB of map for every 4KB of mapped memory - in other words if you have
512 processes connected to an Oracle SGA then you're using as much memory in
the maps as you are in the SGA.
As someone else said - there could be some effect of a spike that has passed
with memory now reloading from swap. The spike might simply have been a sudden
large jump in the number of connected sessions.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis
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Subject: Re: Server is swapping with free memory available
Not using hugepages as of now, I am looking into implementing it though.
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Subject: Re: Server is swapping with free memory available
Arr you using hugepages?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 19:40
<dimensional.dba@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:dimensional.dba@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Is your database currently swapping as in active pages moving in and out of
swap?
vmstat 5 200
Does the si and so columns have anything besides 0?
Or do you just have swap being consumed by processes from some previous over
whelm of memory event?
What specific processes are using swap?
Need to run as root to see everything
for file in /proc/*/status ; do awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 " " $3}END{ print
""}' $file; done | awk '$3 == "kB" && $2 != 0 {print $1" "$2" "$3 }'
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Subject: Re: Server is swapping with free memory available
Have you tried with FILESYSYSTEMIO_OPTIONS=ALL?
On 3/19/19 4:54 PM, Upendra nerilla wrote:
Hello everyone -
We have a database server which is choosing to swap though there is plenty of
free memory.
Any pointers on what to check are much appreciated..
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