Re: Incredible paging on the system
Collalti, Fernando wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We have a Delphi application that runs for more than an hour, the paging on
> the
> system is incredible!! After less than an hour the system "sits down"......
> I'm not able to use the system anymore. Not even thake the engine off-line.
> The system is HP 9000 E35 with HP-UX 9.04 and Informix OnLine 7.12 UC3.
>
> This is an extrac of the onconfig file. Do I need to change something
> in order to avoid paging on the system? Or could it be the Delphi
> application?
>
> LOCKS 2000 # Maximum number of locks
> BUFFERS 200 # Maximum number of shared buffers
> PHYSBUFF 32 # Physical log buffer size (Kbytes)
> LOGBUFF 32 # Logical log buffer size (Kbytes)> LOGSMAX 6 # Maximum number of logical log files
> CLEANERS 16 # Number of buffer cleaner processes
> SHMBASE 0x0 # Shared memory base address
> SHMVIRTSIZE 8000 # initial virtual shared memory segment size
> SHMADD 8192 # Size of new shared memory segments
> (Kbytes)
> SHMTOTAL 0 # Total shared memory (Kbytes). 0=>unlimited
> CKPTINTVL 300 # Check point interval (in sec)
> LRUS 24 # Number of LRU queues
> LRU_MAX_DIRTY 70 # LRU percent dirty begin cleaning limit
> LRU_MIN_DIRTY 60 # LRU percent dirty end cleaning limit
> LTXHWM 50 # Long transaction high water mark> percentage
> LTXEHWM 60 # Long transaction high water mark
> (exclusive)
> TXTIMEOUT 0x12c # Transaction timeout (in sec)
> STACKSIZE 32 # Stack size (Kbytes)>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Fernando
>
> fernando.collalti@orbit.net
It all depends upon how much memory you have. But really, your buffers
number and the size of your physical log buffers could be much, much
higher.
Would residency be OK for your system?
Neil Truby
Chase Bank
Bournemouth, UK