Re: Online 7.12 Tunning

On 18 Sep 97 at 4:22, Paynesys wrote: > The Informix consultants that we spoke to recommend that you > have at least 1GB RAM and 4 physical CPUs to really take > advantage of ODS. Although you can run ODS 7.x on your > platform, you don't have the hardware to run it optimally. > > Do a vmstat from the command line during peak hours. > The "po" column should be at or near 0. If not, then your > system is probably thrashing. This is a clear indication that > there is an insufficient shared memory resources. Sorry, I missed the original post, so I don't know the OS platform under discussion. A small point, but not all systems have vmstat - you might have to use sar. FWIW. -- Ciao, Billy Nose to the ear in Bahrain. And no, I don't know what they say when it rains... For a good time, call: http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html