> Sorry for misunderstanding, I don't give 60% as general recommendation.
> Recommendation is to start from 20% and tune up keeping eye on free memory
> cushion, onstat -g seg, swapping, etc. 60% is where I stopped for
> particular system I just tuned (7.24, 512M RAM, Fourth Generation
> Accounting). %cached reads came from 90-91 to 99+, and (talking of DDS)
> reports which took couple hours run for 15 min. The point is - if somebody
> is buying 1 Gb of extra RAM to rev up performance, not 200 M should be
> added to BUFFERS, but much more, maybe almost everything.
If you're running an OLTP environment, yes. DSS, probably not--
you'd likely want that memory going to the virtual segment.