On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Mathias Magnusson < mathias.magnusson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As Niall has pointed out memory is measured different on different > platforms. Linux will apparently show you that it uses everything as it > includes dynamically sized areas such as the filecache that idle memory is > used for. > I should have pointed out Christo's presentation on the subject available at http://www.pythian.com/news/741/pythian-goodies-free-memory-swap-oracle-and-everything by the way. well worth a look, and kudos to christo for putting it live online. -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info