Help: Who takes my memory away?

From: <joebayeriI_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 22 Dec 2006 06:35:51 -0800
Message-ID: <1166798151.257449.34850@48g2000cwx.googlegroups.com>

I have Oracle 10.2 installed on Linux. I have 16G memory, Oracle SGA only takes 1G, but Top command shows 14G memory is used. Is it something I should be alarmed?

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top - 09:32:45 up 16 days, 16:55, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.00
Tasks: 175 total, 1 running, 174 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 16629416k total, 14795416k used, 1834000k free, 224928k buffers
Swap: 8388576k total, 656k used, 8387920k free, 13948040k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 11125 ora102 16 0 860m 166m 163m S 0 1.0 0:08.94 ora_dbw0_test1
 8601 ora102 16 0 872m 158m 154m S 0 1.0 0:09.85 ora_dbw0_test2
11131 ora102 16 0 860m 144m 141m S 0 0.9 0:18.38 ora_smon_test1
 8607 ora102 16 0 872m 131m 128m S 0 0.8 0:19.14 ora_smon_test 2
12987 ora102 16 0 576m 90m 26m S 0 0.6 0:00.89
/ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin/java

12989 ora102 16 0 576m 90m 26m S 0 0.6 0:00.00
/ORACLE_HOME/jdk/bin/java

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vmstat 5 5
procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu----
 r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa
 0 0 656 1833872 225088 13948140 0 0 5 12 1 1 0 0 100 0
 0 0 656 1833872 225088 13948140 0 0 0 41 1016 96 0 0 100 0
 0 0 656 1833936 225088 13948140 0 0 0 40 1022 103 0 0 100 0

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Thanks for your help. Received on Fri Dec 22 2006 - 08:35:51 CST