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Title:The Replication Option for Rdb
Notice:Product renamed to Replication Option for Rdb
Moderator:BROKE::PROTEAU
Created:Wed Mar 02 1994
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:287
Total number of notes:1231

287.0. "Replication eats my memory" by CHSR38::RROHR (Cajun? Zydeco? Both!) Wed May 28 1997 05:53

    Alpha 6.2 Rdb 7.0.0.1 Replication 7.0:
    
    Once I start the replication monitor, it grabs 15% of my system's
    memory. This seems way too much to me for a monitor in 'standby' (i.e
    not actively used).
    
    Is there something I can do to decrease this percentage?
    
    Thanks,
    Regina
    
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287.1UKVMS3::PJACKSONOracle UK Rdb SupportWed May 28 1997 08:403
    How are you measuring this 15%?
    
    Peter
287.2CHSR38::RROHRCajun? Zydeco? Both!Wed May 28 1997 12:1813
    Well, I was investigating memory problems and started removing things I
    had installed lately to find the culprit. When I stopped the monitor, 
    according to MONITOR CLUSTER, there was 15% more memory available. 
    
    I stopped and restarted several times and the result stayed the same.
    
    I agree this is not very sophisticated, but I saw what I saw. 15% up,
    15% down. 
    
    /Regina 
    PS: At the moment I tend to believe my mem problems come from another
    culprit, but I am still curious about what I observed.
     
287.3Bug it if necessaryBROKE::PROTEAUJean-Claude ProteauWed May 28 1997 14:515
    
    This product has been around for 10 years and I don't recall memory
    usage being an issue before.  It's possible something got changed.  If
    you believe there's a problem we should correct, please get some
    numbers and post a bug report.
287.4UKVMS3::PJACKSONOracle UK Rdb SupportThu May 29 1997 05:4712
    You are placing too much reliance on monitor cluster. The memory in use
    figure does not indicate how much memory is in use. On VMS unless the
    system is almost idle 100% of the memory will be being used. For
    example the free list is used as a cache to reduce hard paging. Also
    the quieter the system the more memory each individual process will
    have reserved. On a busy system the working set for the process will
    be reduced to free memory for other processes, until this reduction
    causes paging to increase. The 15% is probably something near the
    maximum memory the process will use. The interesting number is the
    minimum needed to avoid heavy paging.
    
    Peter