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тАО11-04-2009 12:07 PM
тАО11-04-2009 12:07 PM
We are using a rx-7640 with 32 GB of memory, HP-UX 11.31 running Oracle 10g and 600 users. On "top" is possible to see the vhand proccess high on the list, usually betwen the firsts 5. Also, top reflects few free memory, less than 300 MB. "sar -d" also reflects the swap disk is having a lot of access. "vmstat" also reflects high "page po" values (betwen 50 and 6.000).
I am almost sure we need more memory for the system, but I would like to have more "proves". Please advice.
Thank you for help!.
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тАО11-04-2009 12:15 PM
тАО11-04-2009 12:15 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
Showing the output of 'swapinfo -tam' could also help. That will show how much has actually been paged out.
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тАО11-04-2009 12:21 PM
тАО11-04-2009 12:21 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
Here it is.
mls01:/home/ust>>swapinfo -tam
Mb Mb Mb PCT START/ Mb
TYPE AVAIL USED FREE USED LIMIT RESERVE PRI NAME
dev 32768 0 32768 0% 0 - 1 /dev/vg00/lvol2
dev 32764 2283 30481 7% 0 - 0 /dev/vg01/lv01
dev 32760 1867 30893 6% 0 - 0 /dev/vgn01/lvol1
dev 37600 1854 35746 5% 0 - 0 /dev/vgn03/lvol1
reserve - 23159 -23159
memory 31040 19904 11136 64%
total 166932 49067 117865 29% - 0 -
mls01:/home/ust>>date
Wed Nov 4 15:54:43 SAT 2009
mls01:/home/ust>>
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тАО11-04-2009 12:31 PM
тАО11-04-2009 12:31 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
I would add at least 16 GB additional RAM to this server. You will probably see an improvement in performance as well since you should not be paging out to disk as much (or at all).
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тАО11-04-2009 12:46 PM
тАО11-04-2009 12:46 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
=> send that request to your DB manager
Could [s]he have been too eager in consuming memory for caching.
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тАО11-04-2009 08:45 PM
тАО11-04-2009 08:45 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
Check the vmstat command if the po value is more this suggests that server is short of physical memory.
As suggested by other members either increase the memory of reduce the number of processes on this box.
I know if you java process running then they are major candidate for memory consumption
Sagar
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тАО11-04-2009 08:50 PM
тАО11-04-2009 08:50 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
You know you have a memory shortage if you are using swapspace
You know you have a memory shortage if you are doing pageouts to your swap device
You know you have a memory shortage if you have disk activity on your swap device.
You know you have a memory shortage if vhand is a top process
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тАО11-04-2009 08:55 PM
тАО11-04-2009 08:55 PM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
-How much memory usage do you see in glance during peak hours. Also you can check the measure ware graph with historical data to find out if you really need more memory.
- Use kmeminfo tool to see separate memory utilization between system and application .
- As per 600 oracle user , if one user consume ~5MB then Total memory required wold be 30GB , you got 32GB that is not enough in this case as there should be provision for system and kernel memory as well.
Hth,
Raj.
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тАО11-04-2009 08:58 PM
тАО11-04-2009 08:58 PM
SolutionPlease note that the 'pageout' rate on 11.31 also refers to the reclaimation of file cache pages. So, it does not always mean that the system is under pressue. It could just be that the file cache is hogging more pages.
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тАО11-05-2009 05:16 AM
тАО11-05-2009 05:16 AM
Re: Memory pressure. vhand.
I'll check the JAVA proccess memory usage, and the memory detail with kmeminfo. About the 'filecache_min' and 'filecache_max' , both are in "auto tuning". In fact, I don't like too much "the automatic" parameters, but this one is working that way. I accept suggestions.
Thank you!.