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So how big is your buffer cache ?

From: Richard Foote <richard.foote_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 21:56:50 +1000
Message-ID: <051501c48cf6$1aded0b0$0100000a@FOOTE>


Hi All,

In an interesting insight into how Don Burleson performs tuning at the c.d.o.s newsgroup
(http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&th=73f606eef5e7e99f) . Don suggests he has "no problem throwing hardware at crappy code when the client doesn't want to tune it". He's also basically recommending using AWE and utilising all available RAM on 32bit windows, whether you need to or not. I mean, AWE has no disadvantages right ... :)

However, he also makes the claim that "It's not uncommon to see working sets of frequently-referenced data of for than 30-gig for a large database. AWE is a great techniques for 32-bit Windows databases and I do it for dozens of databases every year, ALWAYS with great results."

So my question to you all is how large are your largest buffer caches ? How many of you have a buffer cache that is 30G+ ? And on 32bit windows ?

Love to know !!

Cheers

Richard



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