Is the 'fixedbuffers' kernel parameter available for SLES8 as well or is it
new with SLES9?

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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Michiyasu Takada
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 8:27 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Oracle and Linux under z/VM


That problem might be caused due to the z/VM 2GB restriction(refer URL : 
http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/tips/2gstorag.html). 

In that case, the fixed I/O buffers would be help. To exploit this 
feature, you need to upgrade to SP1 if you haven't yet, then add 
"dasd=<list of all DASD devices>,fixedbuffers" to the kernel parameter in 
/etc/zipl.conf and reboot after executing the zipl command. 

You can find a more detailed description regarding how to setup this 
feature in the following web page.

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/linux390/perf/tuning_how_fixed_i
o_buffers.html#begin

Best Regards.




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Hello,
I'd like to know if there's anybody using Oracle under Linux and z/VM. Our 
situation is:
-Oracle 10g
- SuSE 9
- z/VM 5.1: zSeries 800, 2 IFLs, 4.6 GB of central storage, 1,5 GB of 
expanded storage, 6 ESCON channels, DS/8000 storage.
- At this moment, there's another VM guest with 1 GB in size.
The database is 176 GB in size, used for datawarehouse. The common 
accesses are transactional (short term requests) both in queries and 
updates.
The results of our performance tests are bad (in words of our DBA, because my 
problem is that I have no knowledge of Oracle, so I only know what my DBA tells 
me). What I can observe from Performance Toolkit is that we have a high rate of 
pages moving from central to expanded, and from expanded to central, causing a 
high CPU use.
At this moment, I'm aplying fixes UM31411 and UM31485 because they are 
commended for this kind of problems.
Any help would be welcome, because I have tried everything, and I don't 
know what could be the problem.

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