Re: Automatic Memory Management on AIX and Solaris

From: Randolf Geist <mahrah_at_web.de>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 00:22:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <2150895d-c9ed-4d17-b936-e06399c9e931_at_k5g2000pre.googlegroups.com>



On Nov 7, 8:24 am, vsevolod afanassiev <vsevolod.afanass..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone please point to documentation, Metalink note, blog post
> etc that explains how
> Automatic Memory Management (AMM - 11g feature) is implemented on AIX
> and Solaris?
> There are many documents for Linux explaining that with AMM enabled
> instead of using normal
> shared memory segment (visible with "ipcs") Oracle uses "/dev/shm".
> However I couldn't find any info on AIX/Solaris. As far as I could see
> Oracle still creates normal
> shared memory segment visible with "ipcs". Isn't it static in size?

A very good write-up for AIX can be found here:

http://intermediatesql.com/tag/memory/

Check the posts tagged with "memory" - it also covers the AMM variant on AIX extensively in several of the posts.

Hope this helps,
Randolf Received on Mon Nov 07 2011 - 02:22:40 CST

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