Prob. in connecting as sqlplus "/as sysdba" in 9.2

Hi,

I am having a problem in oracle9.2 installed on Linux 7.2, starting up the database.
when I give [ sqlplus "/as sysdba ] at $ prompt its taking a lot of time and my server is becomming slower, and then when I use top command I surprised to see that the Server process which is starting up the database is using nearly 1GB in SIZE & RSS columns.......
why its like that??????

Please help me soon......


Regards,
Singh.

Hi

Top is not the right utilty to tell you which processes is consuming what amount of memory..its buggy..what is the value of show sga command..

regards
Hrishy