Shared Memory Segments

Displays general information about shared-memory segments allocated to the database.

PROMON Shared Memory Segments Status display

The following shows a sample Shared Memory Segments Status display.

09/20/06        Status: Shared Memory Segments
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Seg     Id      Size          Used       Free
 1      91242   858972160  849424036    9548124

The display contains the following fields:

  • Seg — The segment number; each segment receives a sequential number when it is created
  • Id — The number the operating system uses to reference this segment
  • Size — The total allocated segment size, in bytes
  • Used — The amount of shared memory used from the segment, in bytes
  • Free — The amount of shared memory allocated but not yet used in the segment, in bytes