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Oracle processes consuming 95% of the memory on IBM AIX machine

User_GST8VFeb 21 2020 — edited Mar 2 2020

Hi ,

We  are getting  alert from OEM when memory is utilized  more than 94%, on  check  found  that oracle processes are using more memory .

Need help to  debug the issue  , why oracle processes are utilizing  more memory  and is really  required or tuning  is  required .

Please find the memory output below .

# ps aux | head -1; ps aux | sort -rn +3 | head

USER          PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS    TTY STAT    STIME  TIME COMMAND

grid     12321220  0.0  2.0 173780 509600      - A      Feb 09 14:45 /u01/app/grid/

grid      6226422  0.0  2.0 197376 533344      - A      Feb 09 105:08 /u01/app/grid/

oracle   66781482  0.0  1.0 262188 204728      - A    01:24:57  0:00 ora_p01z_madev

oracle   66715916  0.0  1.0 262124 198264      - A    01:24:51  0:00 ora_p01x_madev

oracle   65339892  0.0  1.0 262828 198968      - A    23:47:58  0:00 ora_o002_madev

oracle   65208786  0.0  1.0 262124 198264      - A    01:24:51  0:00 ora_p01t_madev

oracle   64880938  0.0  1.0 262124 198264      - A    01:24:51  0:00 ora_p01u_madev

oracle   64553274  0.0  1.0 262188 204728      - A    01:24:57  0:00 ora_p01v_madev

oracle   64356824  0.0  1.0 266348 208888      - A      Feb 13  0:03 ora_w00p_madev

oracle   64160146  0.0  1.0 265388 207928      - A      Feb 18  0:01 ora_w00v_madev

Memory ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────│

│          Physical  PageSpace |        pages/sec  In     Out | FileSystemCache                                                              │

│% Used       94.4%      0.4%  | to Paging Space   0.0    0.0 | (numperm)  5.9%                                                              │

│% Free        5.6%     99.6%  | to File System    0.0    0.5 | Process   74.3%                                                              │

│MB Used   30939.1MB   122.1MB | Page Scans        0.0        | System    14.2%                                                              │

│MB Free    1828.9MB 33669.9MB | Page Cycles       0.0        | Free       5.6%                                                              │

│Total(MB) 32768.0MB 33792.0MB | Page Steals       0.0        |           ------                                                             │

│                              | Page Faults    1260.0        | Total    100.0%                                                              │

│------------------------------------------------------------ | numclient  5.9%                                                              │

│Min/Maxperm     938MB(  3%)  28144MB( 90%) <--% of RAM       | maxclient 90.0%                                                              │

│Min/Maxfree     960   1088       Total Virtual   65.0GB      | User      75.8%                                                              │

│Min/Maxpgahead    2      8    Accessed Virtual   25.0GB 38.5%| Pinned    19.6%                                                              │

│                                                             | lruable pages   8005456.0   

Thanks

Oracle DBA

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