Re: Dynamically adding shared memory segs

In article <35F79435.19B227EB@Materna.De>, Martin.Berns@Materna.De (Martin Berns) wrote: > Bill Weaver schrieb: > > > > Today for some reason we've added 5 shared memory segments > > dynamically. It almost never happens > > that we even have 1 added since I've worked to size our initial > > segment to avoid this. How can > > I tell what is causing us to add so many all of a sudden? > [snip] > > Run 'onstat -g ses' and have a look at the 'total memory' column. This > may indicate who is using > the additional memory. Remember, sessions don't free memory by > themselves: So if there is a big difference between 'total memory' and > 'used memory' you should think about running 'onmode -F' every x > minutes/hours by cron. [cutting] Running onmode -F regularly via cron every few minutes is a big no-no but I can't for the life of me remember via apart from ITS strongly recommends you do not do it. I'm sure somebody within cdi will remember before I do ;-) Paul Watson # I don't suffer from WF Software Ltd. # stress, I'm just Tel. (+44) 1436 674729 # a carrier Fax. (+44) 1436 678693 #