Since I suspect oracle sso processes (owned by oracle) is the culprit of chewing up memory, I issued "top -u oracle" but under % mem column, none of them chewed a lot : Mem: 8308576k total, 8232456k used, 76120k free, 28244k buffers Swap: 8385888k total, 294712k used, 8091176k free, 6820996k cached PID USER PR NI %CPU TIME+ %MEM VIRT RES SHR S COMMAND 12570 oracle 16 0 15 772:44.56 0.1 199m 6900 4180 S opmn 8775 oracle 16 0 13 32:12.00 0.1 43472 6140 4328 S tnslsnr 18510 oracle 19 0 1 0:00.02 0.3 348m 21m 20m S oracle 16500 oracle 16 0 0 0:10.90 0.2 606m 17m 15m S oracle 22836 oracle 16 0 0 0:10.85 0.2 608m 17m 15m S oracle 427 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.42 0.3 607m 26m 24m S oracle 2472 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.01 0.2 606m 13m 11m S oracle 2602 oracle 15 0 0 5:19.40 0.7 348m 60m 58m S oracle 3109 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.02 0.2 606m 18m 16m S oracle 4248 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.01 0.2 606m 13m 11m S oracle 5106 oracle 17 0 0 0:02.76 0.5 357m 37m 14m S emagent 6096 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.20 0.1 20960 9728 6780 S gnome-session 6124 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.01 0.0 4884 644 404 S ssh-agent 6151 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.00 0.0 4328 516 404 S dbus-launch 6152 oracle 15 0 0 0:00.00 0.0 14392 1108 944 S dbus-daemon-1 6157 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.75 0.1 11576 7548 1660 S gconfd-2 6162 oracle 18 0 0 0:00.00 0.0 3156 552 460 S gnome-keyring-d 6164 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.07 0.0 7732 2556 1976 S bonobo-activati 6166 oracle 15 0 0 0:00.07 0.1 18704 6764 5696 S gnome-settings- 6172 oracle 15 0 0 42:14.20 0.7 57696 54m 856 S gam_server 6181 oracle 15 0 0 0:00.49 0.0 4592 2136 1608 S xscreensaver 6193 oracle 17 0 0 0:00.03 0.3 349m 22m 19m S oracle 6207 oracle 16 0 0 0:01.51 0.1 14008 7368 6132 S metacity 6209 oracle 16 0 0 23:36.86 4.4 396m 357m 8160 S gnome-panel 6211 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.05 0.1 19976 6164 5340 S gnome-volume-ma 6213 oracle 16 0 0 0:01.19 0.2 40744 15m 9876 S nautilus 6215 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.13 0.1 40352 7252 6232 S eggcups 6217 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.20 0.1 12324 4196 3592 S pam-panel-icon 6219 oracle 25 10 0 13:46.11 0.2 30036 16m 9864 S rhn-applet-gui 6225 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.01 0.0 21372 3520 2960 S gnome-vfs-daemo 6236 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.05 0.0 2212 692 620 S mapping-daemon 6238 oracle 16 0 0 0:01.67 0.1 22064 9.8m 7552 S wnck-applet 6240 oracle 15 0 0 0:01.01 0.1 21816 9428 7128 S mixer_applet2 6242 oracle 16 0 0 0:00.29 0.1 20852 7904 6648 S clock-applet 6244 oracle 15 0 0 0:00.03 0.1 18888 6644 5680 S notification-ar 6246 oracle 15 0 0 0:04.67 0.2 41480 16m 8424 S gnome-terminal -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
