Ethan, There is an excellent section on AIX specific tuning in Oracle Performance Tuning 101 (ISBN 007213145-4).
I ran into a similar paging problem on a client's machine and the IBM tech (who was there a day before me) had already fixed the main 'Oracle' performance problem I was coming in to tune. It was in fact just a matter of getting the right mix of minperm and maxperm in vmtune on the OS. The default values are 80/20, which stinks. Ask IBM to give you more reasonable figures and buy Gaja's (et al.) book. Regards, Chris Gait -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
