Re: large pages on AIX not used by oracle

"Andreas Piesk" <a.piesk_at_gmx.net> wrote in message news:1137193794.379136.208850_at_o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> i'm trying to convince oracle to use large pages on AIX 5.3 but haven't
> suceeded so far.
> i set v_pinshm=1, maxpin%=80, lgpg_regions=448 and lgpg_size=16777216
> using 'vmo' and 'LOCK_SGA=true' in spfile. after rebooting and starting
> the instance 'svmon' shows no no large pages in use:
>
> # svmon
> size inuse free pin virtual
> memory 4046848 3711708 335140 2911845 1503108
> pg space 524288 5551
>
> work pers clnt lpage
> pin 1076604 0 233 1835008
> in use 1503010 0 373690 0
>
> pgsize size free
> lpage pool 16 MB 448 448
>
> SGA size is 3G. why doesn't oracle use large pages? i already have
> created a TAR but maybe an oracle-on-AIX expert can help me faster than
> oracle support :)
>
> regards,
> -ap
>

Did you reboot the whole server or just the instance ? I think you need to reboot the server to activate it. Received on Fri Jan 13 2006 - 17:45:56 CST