RE: We've Added more memory...but I can't remember!

An excellent source for performance info is the Performance Management
Resource Library
<http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/perfmgmt/resource.htm>. There
you can get to the Performance Capabilities Reference for the various
releases. The v5r1 manual discusses poo tuning around page 281.

At 09:44 AM 7/11/02 +0000, you wrote:



>>From: "Rick Rayburn" <the400man@hotmail.com>
>>
>>wait...so I should add 62,500 k to machine pool from the 1 gig?
>
>Yes -- If you add 1 gigabyte of memory (and the machine pool was correctly
>sized before you added the memory) you will need to add something like
>62,500 kilobytes to the machine pool to handle the "virtual address"
>mechanism for that gigabyte of memory.  I have seen people buy a bunch of
>memory and get significantly _worse_ performance because their machine pool
>was too small.

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