Re: Automatic Memory Management on AIX and Solaris

From: vsevolod afanassiev <vsevolod.afanassiev_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 01:18:53 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <25e64d9b-fcc2-421f-9e18-6062022931fb_at_k38g2000pro.googlegroups.com>

On Nov 7, 7:22 pm, Randolf Geist <mah..._at_web.de> wrote:
> 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

Thanks, this is very useful. Received on Mon Nov 07 2011 - 03:18:53 CST