Re: Oracle 10g on Windows 2003 x64 Memory Useage

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:34:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1186083270.312814.266340@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>

On Aug 2, 9:22 am, sev..._at_kcpweb.net wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We are running Oracle 10g on a Quad Dual Core Windows 2003 x64
> Enterprise Server with 16GB of memory. I notice that the Oracle
> process is only using 4.6 GB of Physical RAM and 10GB of Virtual
> memory. Performance monitor is showing that the server has 8GB
> Physical Memory free. This seems like oracle isn't using the free
> memory very efficiently and swapping a lot out to disk, is this
> something that can be tuned to boost performance or is it dynamically
> performed by the Oracle process?
>
> Thanks for your help, I'm new to Oracle having worked mainly with MS
> SQL so go easy on me,
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephen

If you run oracle on a unix platform of some kind you may have better luck.

If you have properly installed and configured 64 bit oracle on a 64 bit os this sounds unusual. Received on Thu Aug 02 2007 - 14:34:30 CDT