Re: SHARED MEMORY

billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: :I quote from some e-mail from the person whose account was "borrowed" for :the original post: ::What the man means, _I think_, is: ::There is ALL the memory available on the machine. ::There is a quantity of memory used as SHARED memory. ::Each user can have SOME memory. ::When you are working out how big SOME memory can be, do you subtract the ::amount of SHARED memory from ALL the memory and take what's left as a basis ::for the calculations? ::If you understand this, let me know, and explain it to me ;-) As someone said you hardly need to tune the OS, the only thing you have to make sure of is that you have enough memory available for your applications. You should probably avoid paging/swaping at any cost. Use cpqmon (Compaq Monitoring utility) to check this. The major "tuning" here is how much memory you let OnLine grab. :I've had a look at the site, and performance seems pretty good for 200 users :on a SCO box.... :-) I would sure like to here more about this site. What model Compaq sever is this, what version of SCO and OnLine, and what is "pretty good" performance. ... snip ... Nils.Myklebust@ccmail.telemax.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company