Re: [PERFORM] tuning for AIX 5L with large memory

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Harris) writes: > Christopher Browne wrote: > >>We have a couple of these at work; they're nice and fast, although the >>process of compiling things, well, "makes me feel a little unclean." >> > Thanks very much for your detailed reply, Christopher. Would you mind > elaborat

Re: [PERFORM] tuning for AIX 5L with large memory

2004-05-26 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Conway) writes: > Christopher Browne wrote: >> One of our sysadmins did all the "configuring OS stuff" part; I don't >> recall offhand if there was a need to twiddle something in order to >> get it to have great gobs of shared memory. > > FWIW, the section on configuring ker

Re: [PERFORM] tuning for AIX 5L with large memory

2004-05-23 Thread Dan Harris
Christopher Browne wrote: We have a couple of these at work; they're nice and fast, although the process of compiling things, well, "makes me feel a little unclean." Thanks very much for your detailed reply, Christopher. Would you mind elaborating on the "makes me feel a little unclean" statem

Re: [PERFORM] tuning for AIX 5L with large memory

2004-05-21 Thread Neil Conway
Christopher Browne wrote: One of our sysadmins did all the "configuring OS stuff" part; I don't recall offhand if there was a need to twiddle something in order to get it to have great gobs of shared memory. FWIW, the section on configuring kernel resources under various Unixen[1] doesn't have any

Re: [PERFORM] tuning for AIX 5L with large memory

2004-05-21 Thread Christopher Browne
Clinging to sanity, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Harris) mumbled into her beard: > I will soon have at my disposal a new IBM pSeries server. The main > mission for this box will be to serve several pg databases. I have > ordered 8GB of RAM and want to learn the best way to tune pg and AIX > for this co

[PERFORM] tuning for AIX 5L with large memory

2004-05-21 Thread Dan Harris
I will soon have at my disposal a new IBM pSeries server. The main mission for this box will be to serve several pg databases. I have ordered 8GB of RAM and want to learn the best way to tune pg and AIX for this configuration. Specifically, I am curious about shared memory limitations. I'v