I think in heavily concurrent VLM environments, large pages can pay off. TPC tests use usually large pages as well, I've seen even 16MB page sizes in some configurations. Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Allen, Brandon To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 3:48 PM Subject: Large Page Memory on AIX I was just reading this white paper on tuning AIX 5L for Oracle: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/enable/site/peducation/wp/9a46/9a46.pdf and am curious about the section on Large Page Memory (page 10). Is anyone out there using the large page feature with Oracle 9i on AIX 5.2 or 5.3? Did you see any noticeable improvement from implementing it? Thanks, Brandon Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it.