Re: Re: What uses swap file?

Hi,
  I think that is wrong.
  To look at the real swap space , use swap -l;   Top/prstat does not show swap space usage correctly in solaris.It also including physical memory usage.

zhu chao

> The swap area is a supplement to the physical memory, but when you are using
> shared memory, swap area is allocated as ³backing?for that shared memory.
> So, on systems running Oracle, you¹ll usually see swap space somewhat larger
> than the SGA in use, even when absolutely nothing is going on...
>
>
> on 5/14/03 2:27 PM, Deshpande, Kirti at kirti.deshpande_at_verizon.com wrote:
>
> > SWAP is used by the Operating System.
> > Almost all OSs today, follow a 'Virtual Memory' model. The swap area on disk
> > supplements the actual physical memory.
> >
> > - Kirti
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Edouard Dormidontov [mailto:dg_at_servocomp.ru]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 2:12 AM
> >> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >> Subject: What uses swap file?
> >>
> >> SunOS 5.8, Oracle 8.1.7
> >> top:
> >> Memory: 3072 real, 49M free, 4231M swap in use, 131M swap free
> >> ----------------------
> >> What utility is it possible to look that uses a file?
> >> Like Task Manager in Win2K?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Ed
> >
>
>
>

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