Flavio Fonseca wrote:
Hello all,
I have a proliant server with 4 GB RAM and a 3GHz processor. I am using suse 9.2 professional and installing oracle 9i on it. But when a look at free results just after booting the server with no larg program running:
babao:~ # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4042056 4024008 18048 0 4920 35636 -/+ buffers/cache: 3983452 58604 Swap: 2104472 6068 2098404
almost all memory is allocated. I have just updated the system and it didn't change. I noticed that when I start a program like oracles dbca (assistent to create database) the machine almost dies running like a slower than my workstation.
I also had a problem installing suse 9.2. It didn't started with 4GB of ram. I reduced to 2GB and the installation went fine. After a online update I could install the rest of the RAM. but now I noticed this problem and the machine is too sloow for a server.
thanks for your attention and any help.
Hi there, I saw many 'top' outputs following the thread starting with the post above. I wondered why don't you sort the list 'top' shows by memory-usage. The process using most memory should be first than. See this: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ Command 19653 root 15 0 91448 40m 3320 R 0.0 8.1 31:35.34 X 13046 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m R 0.0 10.8 10:53.18 mozilla-bin 13054 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:00.04 mozilla-bin 13055 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:06.83 mozilla-bin 13056 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:03.24 mozilla-bin 20164 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:00.75 mozilla-bin 22027 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:00.25 mozilla-bin 22134 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:00.57 mozilla-bin 22141 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:00.21 mozilla-bin 22144 ddo 15 0 58376 54m 16m S 0.0 10.8 0:00.08 mozilla-bin 19775 ddo 15 0 30540 29m 13m R 0.0 5.9 4:59.60 kdeinit 24236 ddo 15 0 23788 23m 4756 S 0.0 4.6 6:08.18 xemacs 1628 lp 15 0 19656 784 348 S 0.0 0.2 0:08.58 lpd 24161 ddo 15 0 17708 17m 13m S 0.0 3.4 0:10.00 kdeinit 13598 ddo 15 0 17188 16m 10m R 0.0 3.3 0:03.63 acroread . . The default sorting type of 'top' is by CPU usage. After starting 'top' you should press 'O' as in (O)verclock than 'o' as in Overcl(o)ck than 'Return'. Then the 'top' sorts the processes by memory usage. Regards, N. Eschricht