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Re: possible memory leak on DL380G3

 
lastgreatone
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possible memory leak on DL380G3

My production server ProLiant DL380G3 running RH 2.1 with 3GB of RAM (Oracle IAS server)appears to run out of memory and I have to reboot the server in order to release it. Perusing the forums I noticed some references to a bug with SIM. What is SIM and how do I find out if that's the problem?
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Vijay_44
Honored Contributor

Re: possible memory leak on DL380G3

SIM - HP Systems Insight Manager. Do you have it installed on your system.
ThereтАЩs your problem!!! This thing is set to EVIL!
Prashant (I am Back)
Honored Contributor

Re: possible memory leak on DL380G3

Hi,

Is the Proliant support pack installed on same server if you try to un-install it and then check it. does it make any change

Regards,
Prashant S.
Nothing is impossible
Rob Leadbeater
Honored Contributor

Re: possible memory leak on DL380G3

You may find that this is just down to Oracle AS being very memory hungry...

Our DL380G3s running 9iAS/10gAS, would easily max out when they had 3GB of memory. We had to go with 4GB as a minimum and have now got 6GB in production, which still might not be enough.

Of course this is application specific so YMMV.

Regards,
Rob
lastgreatone
Regular Advisor

Re: possible memory leak on DL380G3

No SIM, no ProLiant SP. I only have Oracle 9ias running on this system. php-4.3.2

I wonder if the kernel is handling the freeing up of memory.
Here's a c&p of top command with Oracle running:
Mem: 3089968K av, 3079588K used, 10380K free, 238088K shrd, 251772K buff
Swap: 3068128K av, 12088K used, 3056040K free 2312424K cached

Here's a c&p of top command with Oracle stopped (basically an idle system):
Mem: 3089968K av, 2752052K used, 337916K free, 0K shrd, 251772K buff
Swap: 3068128K av, 12088K used, 3056040K free 2297372K cached

Considerable amount of memory still being used, by what?