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why 32bit kernel support more than 4GB mem
Are you looking for the amount of physical memory a 32-bit system can have in total, or the amount of memory address space a process can address? -
Remote Console / Control
You can always go with a console server connected to the serial port defined as the console. However, if you are connected to an HMC, you will not be able to use the serial ports to connect to the console on the server. IBM does not have a "lights-out" management interface like the newer Sun... -
AIX and Create Index of 200 million row table
What version of AIX are you running and at what maintenance level? Please also send the output of the following commands: df -k lsattr -El aio0 (that's a zero on the end) ioo -a vmo -a lspv -
What are some basic items to check for performance?
A mal-performing system is either going to be CPU-, memory-, or I/O-bound. Here are a few items to check that are easily missed by many sysadmins. 1) Check your ulimit settings. By default, users (including root) are capped on file size and memory usage. If your users complain that they... -
Oracle9i is DOG SLOW on AIX 5.2.0.5
FWIW - We start with our maxperm% and minperm% set to 20 and 10 respectively on database servers. Since Oracle does it's own buffering, stealing memory away from the file system buffers generally does not hurt much. Use this with caution though as different databases can react different...
