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Re: Does inactive sessions consume RAM

From: Danisment Gazi Unal (ubTools) <dunal_at_ubTools.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:49:00 +0300
Message-ID: <028f01c443e8$ffdcf180$fe19100a@danismentgu>


Hi,

Diego is correct.

Here is a little bit addition:

pmap has some bugs. See
http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/tools/pmap/index.php for the details.

best regards...

http://www.ubTools.com
Web Based Oracle Products and Services

> Hi Philippe,
>
> The answer to your question is "yes". Idle Oracle processes keep consuming
> memory resources.
> An accurate method, I know, to find out the current PGA for an Oracle
> process is to take a heapdump level 1 for that process. Another
possibility
> is
> to check at the OS level how much memory that process is holding, not by
> checking the SZ field in the standard ps but using commands such as
> svmon in aix or pmap in solaris.
>
> HTH
> Regards,
> Diego.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "NGUYEN Philippe (Cetelem)" <philippe.nguyen_at_cetelem.fr>
> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:33 AM
> Subject: Does inactive sessions consume RAM
>
>
> > Hi list,
> > I have an instance with many inactive sessions because my users always
> > forgot to disconnect from db.
> > Does thoses sessions consume RAM or any resources ?
> > How can I prove it ? (which v$?)
> > Thank in advance !
> > Philippe
> >
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