Can WLM manager share memory ?

[chase_3]

I am using wlm to manage the memory usage of some program , I writed a C program which loading memory with malloc() function , when the memory loaded exceed the limitation of WLM , WLM will transfer the memroy into swap .

But when I try to use WLM control the memory of oracle(a database software),it doesn't work.
I think maybe the reason is oracle is using share memory ?

Thanks for any advise!

[Jonathan Fears]

Hello. Unfortunately this functionality is not available in WLM and that is most likely the situation you are running into with trying to manage memory with Oracle. PRM, however, beginning with version C.03.01 on HP-UX 11iv2 (B.11.23), does manage shared memory. You set an exact size in MB's for a PRM groupâ s shared memory pool. This pool size is usually available from the configuration settings for the consuming application, as is the case with the Oracle SGA size. There is more information about this in the user's guide for PRM C.03.01 and also in the "Using HP Process Resource Manager with Oracle databases" whitepaper available at http://h20338.www2.hp.com/hpux11i/downloads/PRM-Oracle_white_paper.pdf. Hope this helps.