Two things.... Caution about any case resting on saving CPU by eliminating I/O. Back in the late 1980s a series of IBM studies showed highly variable results in this area. Though the technology has (at least in part) rolled a number of times I'd still take home the same lesson. In z/OS R.8 the cost of memory management got improved because of the RSM rewrite. I'd hazard that any management cost scaled better with memory size... As that was the whole point of the rewrite.
Oh, alright then, three things... :-) Caution should be applied on DB2 Virtual Storage when scaling the buffer pools up - if you're on DB2 Version 7. Martin Martin Packer Performance Consultant IBM United Kingdom Ltd +44-20-8832-5167 +44-7802-245-584 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
