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On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 19:00:37 +0200, Sybrand Bakker
<postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:
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>25% and 50% is clearly *outrageous*. Oracle recommends one third for
>*SGA*. Have you ever checked the page fault rate of that server? It
>must be choking!!!!
>If you have 7G RAM Oracle recommends devoting one third to all the
>SGA's together, so in this case about 2G.
>If you need more, you may question whether the applications you have
>were ever tuned. Most of today's developers don't know how to do that.
Actually, I think I want to argue a little against this.. If you
disable file buffering you can probably use up to 70% of RAM. I
haven't noticed any problems when I did that.
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