Re: Oracle 10g on Windows 2003 x64 Memory Useage

On Aug 2, 6:22 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

metalink 657456.992 seems to show your problem exactly. Says "What I did find though, is whomever setup the Windows server set it up as a File Server. I removed that option and now my Oracle process is using 6 gigs of memory (5 for SGA, 500 megs for PGA and then some over head) ...My Page File Usage% is now at 1%."

Whatever that means. What didn't work for the guy was http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/win.101/b10113/ap_64bit.htm#CHDGFJJD which tells how to grant the privilege to lock things in memory, so I'm wondering if the real solution was something else that guy did while fiddling about.

Since I'm a unix bigot, this is all just academic entertainment for me.

To find the referenced document in metalink, log in there and click on Advanced Search, and put 657456.992 in the document id box.

jg

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