Oracle on Linux.

[Jeffrey Strain]

Oracle on Linux.

I am using Oracle 9i on Linux.  I noticed that when I shut down all of
the Oracle instances that a large chunk of memory is still allocated to
it.  When I restart Oracle it does reuse this memory, so not a big loss.
 The only way I know to free up this memory again is via a restart.  I
do not have a good reason for wanting this memory freed up, I just hate
programs that will not release the resources on exit.  Oracle told me
that is just the way it is.  I was wondering if any one had some
insights to this, or a way to force the memory to be freed.


Jeff Strain
Database Administrator
LDS Business College
(801) 524-8189
jstrain at ldsbc.edu