What's the DBA's resistance to Hugepages? Oracle highly recommends their use and the memory footprint reduction can be enormous, particularly on a database with a large number of concurrent connections. You also save CPU by not allocating & deallocating memory all the time. I'd push them to contact Oracle & reconsider. -- Bryce T. Pier Sent from my Android phone.
"Matt Lawrence" <[email protected]> wrote: >So, I'm following up my own question. > >The current answer that solves the current problem is to set swappiness to >0. Basically, in this environment, if any of Oracle's data space gets >swapped out in preference to filesystem cache, there is a positive >feedback with the application that causes everything to melt down. > >Unfortunately, the DBAs are highly resistant to trying things like Huge >Pages or ASM, so the fixes need to happen on the OS side. > >-- Matt _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
