Re: Best Practices

That sounds about right. What's your current pool size? If you drop it and 
the %reads goes below 95%, then you should raise it. Also, it's generally 
recommended to raise or lower the buffer pool in increments of 10%.

Something else I found out is that if you don't define the buffer pool 
size, then the defaults are as follows:

NSF Buffer Pool ? how size is set
Domino R5 - Set to 300 MB by default on iSeries
Domino 6 - Set to 748 MB by default on iSeries
Domino 7 - Set to 748 MB by default on iSeries

What to monitor when fine tuning
Non-database paging faulting = < 100 faults/processor
Database.BufferPool.PercentReadsInBuffer >= 95%
Database.DbCache.MaxEntries = 3 X BufferPool



Chris Whisonant
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domino400-bounces+chris.whisonant=comporium.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 
08/09/2006 05:08:53 PM:

Related to an earlier question I floated through this forum, I've been
investigating how big was big enough on the NSF_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE 

parameter.

On page 230 of the "Domino 6 for iSeries Best Practices" redbook, they 

lay

out some variables to compare and they make the (sort of paraphrased)
statement that  "The NSF_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE is too large if
Database.Database.BufferPool.PerCentReadsInBuffer is between 94% and 

99%,

but
Database.DbCache.MaxEntries is about 40% larger than
Database.DbCache.HighWaterMark."

A little later, it indicates that it's just right if the
Database.DbCache.MaxEntries is not more than 20% larger than
Database.DbCache.HighWaterMark.

So I'm taking this to mean that if Database.DbCache.MaxEntries is more 

then

40% larger, I should consider adjusting the size of the pool down.  For
example, if Database.DbCache.MaxEntries is 1500 and
Database.DbCache.HighWaterMark is 900, the pool is larger than 

necessary.

Does that sound right to you?

Thanks,
Patrick

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