V$PROCESS_MEMORY

V$PROCESS_MEMORY displays dynamic PGA memory usage by named component categories for each process.


Column Datatype Description

PID

NUMBER

Oracle process identifier

SERIAL#

NUMBER

Oracle process serial number

CATEGORY

VARCHAR2(15)

Category name. Categories include "SQL", "PL/SQL", "OLAP" and "JAVA". Special categories are "Freeable" and "Other". Freeable memory has been allocated to the process by the operating system, but has not been allocated to a category. "Other" memory has been allocated to a category, but not to one of the named categories.

ALLOCATED

NUMBER

Bytes of PGA memory allocated by the process for the category. For the "Freeable" category, it is the amount of free PGA memory eligible to be released to the operating system.

USED

NUMBER

Bytes of PGA memory used by the process for the category. For "Freeable", the value is zero. For "Other", the value is NULL for performance reasons.

MAX_ALLOCATED

NUMBER

Maximum bytes of PGA memory ever allocated by the process for the category.

CON_ID

NUMBER

The ID of the container to which the data pertains. Possible values include:

  • 0: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to the entire CDB. This value is also used for rows in non-CDBs.

  • 1: This value is used for rows containing data that pertain to only the root

  • n: Where n is the applicable container ID for the rows containing data