I have a Redhat 7.9 with 16GB of RAM and 8GB of Swap and because I got Swap full notifications, I would like to know how much memory does the
ora user's processes are using at a certain time.
Right now, the swap is pretty ok but still being used even if the Mem is showing 1451 from 15875 being used.
Code:
free -m
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15875 1451 8152 5700 6272 8595
Swap: 8191 2614 5577
Now I was able to run this fancy ps command and get the memory used by the processes of every user:
Code:
ps aux | awk '{arr[$1]+=$4}; END {for (i in arr) {print i,arr[i]}}' | sort -k2
Now I have some questions about the result.
When running ps aux I see that some process are using 0.0% Mem so I assume this is a roundup for something like 0.033% so not as accurate as I would like to be. Is there a way to be more 100% accurate?
My ora user got 101.3 and that's % of RAM - so does that mean that it was using all 100% of the 16GB and some more 1.3% from the Swap?
Why do I see 1451 of RAM currently being used if the ps aux is showing that ora's processes are using more than 100% of memory.
And why is Swap being used if only a small portion of RAM is used?
