memory usage display

Hi, Folks, Curious about the size info of memory usage reported by informix and OS. (a) onstat diplay, IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 11.10.UC2 -- On-Line -- Up 05:27:22 -- 2022240 Kbytes Segment Summary: id key addr size ovhd class blkused blkfree 86 1382041603 30000000 1081344 7328 M 262 2 84 1382041601 40000000 1755119616 10508672 R* 428490 6 85 1382041602 b0000000 314572800 1844384 V 11490 65310 Total: - - 2070773760 - - 440242 65318 (b) ps -el display, F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD 40103 A 3000 110696 286848 0 60 -- 7048c400 14308 f10001100ff30220 - 0:00 oninit 40903 A 3000 139328 286848 0 60 -- 10460400 14528 f10001100ff300b8 - 6:24 oninit 40903 A 3000 249872 286848 0 60 -- e043e400 14516 f10001100ff30108 - 0:06 oninit 40103 A 3000 262210 286848 0 60 -- 7832d400 14276 f10001100ff30068 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 266328 278678 0 60 -- 885b3400 13888 f100011013048068 - 0:13 oninit 40903 A 3000 270388 286848 0 60 -- d02f8400 14416 f10001100ff30130 - 0:04 oninit 40103 A 3000 278678 290858 0 60 -- 85c3400 13900 - 1:11 oninit 40103 A 3000 286848 303176 0 60 -- e9d38400 14288 - 0:00 oninit 10040103 A 3000 290858 1 0 60 -- 305a4400 13976 f10001101105efa8 - 1:31 oninit 40903 A 3000 295114 286848 0 60 -- be694400 14516 f10001100ff300e0 - 0:17 oninit 40103 A 3000 299232 278678 0 60 -- 20586400 13952 f10001002ef9fa78 - 1:17 oninit 10040903 A 3000 303176 1 0 60 -- d0438400 14508 f10001002c68cd18 - 2:18 oninit 40103 A 3000 319510 286848 0 60 -- 90330400 14956 f10001100ff301f8 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 323616 286848 0 60 -- c847b400 14328 f10001100ff30298 - 0:00 oninit 40903 A 3000 331792 286848 0 60 -- 6844f400 14392 f10001100ff30158 - 0:03 oninit 40103 A 3000 335946 286848 0 60 -- 58489400 14288 f10001100ff30090 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 340182 286848 0 60 -- 20486400 14304 f10001100ff301a8 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 344280 286848 0 60 -- 40c6d400 14348 f10001002d2e2978 - 0:47 oninit 40103 A 3000 352444 286848 0 60 -- a0476400 14300 f10001100ff30180 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 356504 286848 0 60 -- d8479400 14332 f10001002d4e3558 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 360566 286848 0 60 -- 50468400 14324 f10001100ff301d0 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 151834 278678 0 60 -- c05da400 13904 f100011013048108 - 0:11 oninit 40103 A 3000 160072 278678 0 60 -- 605ce400 13904 f1000110130480b8 - 0:13 oninit 40103 A 3000 283126 286848 0 60 -- 7842d400 14352 f100011010f8eb78 - 0:45 oninit 40103 A 3000 340300 278678 0 60 -- b05d4400 14028 f1000110130480e0 - 1:46 oninit 40103 A 3000 373016 278678 0 60 -- 7056c400 13900 f100011013048090 - 0:14 oninit 40103 A 3000 377172 278678 0 60 -- 105e0400 13920 f100011013048130 - 0:12 oninit 40103 A 3000 381270 278678 0 60 -- 205e6400 13932 f100011013048158 - 0:12 oninit 40103 A 3000 385368 278678 0 60 -- 705ec400 14548 f100011013048180 - 0:00 oninit 40103 A 3000 389466 278678 0 60 -- 805f2400 13924 f1000110130481a8 - 0:12 oninit 40103 A 3000 393566 278678 0 60 -- f85bd400 13948 f100011010f8ee78 - 1:29 oninit 40103 A 3000 397714 278678 0 60 -- 58649400 13956 f100011012da7dd8 - 0:12 oninit 40103 A 3000 401762 278678 0 60 -- c061a400 13944 f100011012da7d18 - 0:11 oninit 40103 A 3000 410050 278678 0 60 -- e061e400 13948 f100011012da7d98 - 0:12 oninit So, the total memory attached to all the oninit processes are roughly around 480,000 KB. Looks like the 1.7~ GB Resident Buffers are not showed attaching to any oninit process, is that true? Thanks, Frank SHMVIRTSIZE 307200 # initial virtual shared memory segment size SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments (Kbytes) EXTSHMADD 8192 # Size of new extension shared memory segments (Kbytes) SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited BUFFERPOOL default,buffers=400000,lrus=64,lru_min_dirty=40.000000,lru_max_dirty=60.000000 BUFFERPOOL size=4K,buffers=400000,lrus=64,lru_min_dirty=40.000000,lru_max_dirty=60.000000 Program Name: onstat Build Version: 11.10.UC2 Build Number: N158 Build Host: vach Build OS: AIX 5.3 Build Date: Thu Oct 25 22:56:40 CDT 2007 GLS Version: glslib-4.50.UC2