I have a presentation on Memory that demonstrates some of the benefits from HugePages. You can watch the presentation here: http://www.pythian.com/blogs/741/pythian-goodies-free-memory-swap-oracle-and-everything -- Christo Kutrovsky DBA Team Lead The Pythian Group - www.pythian.com I blog at http://www.pythian.com/blogs/ On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Krishna, > >> on Solaris PGA uses ISM > > Wouldn't that cause PGA to be shared? > >> 4. The formula you want to use >> >> Physical Memory > shmall > (shmmax = nr_hugepages) > > I think the shmmax part can be relaxed. It's just a mathematical limit > anyway. Setting it to a very high number does no harm. > > Other points are excellent. > > Yong Huang > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Christo Kutrovsky DBA Team Lead The Pythian Group - www.pythian.com I blog at http://www.pythian.com/blogs/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l