> Yes too bad it's not available on <RHEL5, I don't know if this command can help you: #Red Hat 4, sum of Oracle $ORACLE_SID instance process resident memory (supposedly private) SGA=<number from `show sga' sqlplus command> (for i in `ps -fu oracle | grep $ORACLE_SID | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`; do echo "`ps -orss= -p $i`*1024-$SGA" | bc; done) | awk '{sumrss+=$1} END {print sumrss}' If the above is messed up, go to http://yong321.freeshell.org/osnotes/FreqCmds.txt > the same way I'm feeling for iotop here > http://people.redhat.com/jolsa/iotop/ which is a very useful tool For older Linux, just use atop: http://www.atoptool.nl I thought iotop was written by Guillaume Chazarain at http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ But maybe they somehow work together. Ever since kernel 2.6.18-164 added /proc/<pid>/io, it's a simple matter of reading and sorting. Even I can write a program to do it, called topio: http://yong321.freeshell.org/freeware/pio.html#linux and it's just two simple Perl scripts. No RPM is needed. Slightly before kernel 2.6.18-164, you may be able to have /proc/<pid>/io by configuring TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING in kernel and rebuild. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l