ORACLE 10g PERFORMANCE ON SOLARIS 10

Question

Hi all,
In sunfire v890 we have installed oracle 10g release 2 on solaris 10.
prstat -a command shows :
NPROC USERNAME SIZE RSS MEMORY TIME CPU
105 root 9268M 6324M 20% 1:21:57 0.4%
59 oracle 24G 22G 71% 0:04:33 0.1%
2 nobody4 84M 69M 0.2% 0:11:32 0.0%
2 esbuser 13M 9000K 0.0% 0:00:46 0.0%
1 smmsp 7560K 1944K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
4 daemon 12M 7976K 0.0% 0:00:00 0.0%
and top utility shows :
last pid: 8639; load avg: 0.09, 0.09, 0.09; up 2+06:05:29 17:07:50
171 processes: 170 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 98.7% idle, 0.7% user, 0.7% kernel, 0.0% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 32G phys mem, 22G free mem, 31G swap, 31G free swap
therefore from prstat we come to know that memory used by oracle is 71%
where as top says 31.25% used.....
which one is true in this scenario.....
shall we go ahead in trusting top utility????
Advance thanks to you.

Answer 1

therefore from prstat we come to know that memory
used by oracle is 71%
where as top says 31.25% used.....
which one is true in this scenario.....
shall we go ahead in trusting top utility????In this case top is more accurate. prstat pretends all the memory used by each Oracle process is used only by that process. But lots of the memory used by Oracle is shared between several processes. prstat is counting that shared memory over and over for each process... resulting in the higher figure.
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