On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:02:00 -0500, Levy, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> XSTORE= 1024M online= 1024M
> XSTORE= 1024M userid= SYSTEM usage= 99% retained= 0M pending= 0M
> XSTORE MDC min=0M, max=1024M, usage=12%
> XSTORE= 1024M userid=  (none)  max. attach= 1024M

I would recommend to disable MDC in XSTORE, iirc with
SET MDC XSTORE 0M 0M

The rationale behind that is that you have XSTORE as a fast route for
paging - especially to give CP room to arrange things under the 2G
bar. You do not want your expanded storage as a disk cache (you rather
had main memory if it were for that). I believe MDC in main memory
*is* useful, but the defaults make it often too agressive (I like to
set the ratio much lower than 1, but others prefer to set a max).

This is different when main memory is less than 2G because that does
not have the 2G issue and is very small to allow for some MDC
benefits.

Rob van der Heij                  rvdheij @ gmail.com

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