You can set your buffer size to 10000 and put commit=y into your parfile. This may help.
Happy Holidays, Ruth ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 1:35 PM > Sorry for the cross post if you are the other big list. > > I am having some trouble finding a solution to a problem. This is > specifically AIX related. Here is the gist. > > * Any large sort or import appears to cause paging to take place. I only > say large because of the problems, in reality these are quite small objects > for the machine we are running, 200,000 - 600,000 rows in the 200-400 MB > range. Any way last night I was importing one of these objects. > > * CPU wio goes through the roof almost right away. Spending up to 50% of > time waiting on IO. > > * vmstat shows huge numbers in po, fr, sr and a few block processes in b > column. > > * hdisk0 goes 100% (swap space is here) > > * lsps -a shows swap space is only 40% utilized, never changes. There is > only 2GB of swap, admin just increase to 4 GB but still on same disk. Not > sure this will really help since it never was 100% anyway. > > * Setup- RS/6000 7026-M80 rack mount running AIX with 4-500Mhz processors, > 4GB memory, 3-10/100 Ethernet cards, 2 fiber ports, and 2-18.2GB internal > drives with RAID. The 2 fiber ports will attach to a storage area network > providing access to EMC Clarion storage (see below) > > * Oracle is the only app on the box and I have configured about 2GB for the > SGA. There should be plenty of free memory. > > I am pretty sure we hosed something up with are memory configuration. I see > a lot of things about using vmtune to configure various AIC related > parameters as too how much memory is can use for various things. Can anyone > provide me with the direction to head in examining our configuration and > what settings should/could be changed to improve the situation? > > Thanks, > Ethan Post > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Post, Ethan > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Ruth Gramolini INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
