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Also see these notes on Managing Oracle disk I/O in AIX.

The IBM AIX operating system can be optimized for Oracle databases as noted in this IBM
whitepaper titled "Tuning IBM AIX 5L for an Oracle Database". Also, the TPC
Oracle Training benchmarks for Oracle AIX are an excellent was to find optimal Oracle AIX parameter
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Oracle AIX Process Memory tuning

Remote DBA
Oracle Tuning The AIX operating system provides a robust environment for running processes
Emergency 911 with a wide variety of execution characteristics. By taking advantage of the
RAC Support many variables and features to tune the process environment specifically for the
Apps Support Oracle application, memory usage of each Oracle process is reduced.
Analysis
Design The AIXTHREAD_SCOPE environment variable can be used for control if a
Implementation process runs with process-wide contention scope (the default) or with
Oracle Support
system-wide contention scope. When using system-wide contention scope,
there is a one-to-one mapping between the user thread and a kernel thread. On
UNIX® systems, Oracle applications are primarily multiprocess and single-
threaded.
SQL Tuning
Security One of the mechanisms that enables this multiprocess system to operate
UNIX effectively is the AIX post/wait mechanism: thread_post(), thread_post_many(),
Oracle UNIX and thread_wait(). It operates most effectively with the Oracle application
Linux
when using system-wide contention scope (AIXTHREAD_SCOPE=S).
Oracle Linux
As of AIX V5.2, system-wide contention scope will also significantly reduce the
Monitoring
memory required for each Oracle process. For these reasons, always export
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AIXTHREAD_SCOPE=S before starting all Oracle processes. In Oracle
Remote plans Database 10g a newer, system-wide contention scope is set internally when the
Remote services instance and user processes are started.
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Oracle AIX memory pinning
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The AIX operating system allows shared memory to be allocated in pinned
App Server
memory for improved performance. Pinned memory is always present in real
Applications
memory; it is not paged in and out. The primary advantage of using pinned
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memory for the Oracle System Global Area (SGA) is that I/O from pinned
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11i Upgrades This is possible because the asynchronous I/O routines do not need to pin the
SQL Server SGA memory each time it is used for an I/O operation. Because of this
Oracle Concepts performance improvement, it is best to use pinned memory to allocate the
HTML-DB Tips Oracle SGA.
Software Help When the Oracle initialization parameter LOCK_SGA is set to TRUE, Oracle
Remote Help will allocate shared memory for the SGA using the AIX pinned memory. (Note:
Development shmget() is called with the SHM_PIN flag set.) In addition to setting the Oracle
Implementation LOCK_SGA parameter to TRUE, the AIX operating system must be configured
to allow pinned memory to be used for shared memory.

Financials Training
AIX Oracle large page support
Oracle 11i
Oracle Apps 11i Give the Oracle user ID the CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM and
Oracle Workflow
CAP_PROPAGATE capabilities by following these steps:
Oracle AR 11i Class
1. First check the current capabilities: #lsuser –a capabilities oracle
Note: only the root user can display the capabilities attribute.
Oracle AP 11i class
2. Add the CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM and CAP_PROPAGATE capabilities
Oracle GL 11i class
to the list of capabilities already assigned to this user ID, if any: #chuser
Oracle HR 11i class
capabilities=CAP_BYPASS_RAC_VMM,CAP_PROPAGAE oracle
Oracle FA 11i class
3. Configure the AIX large page pool by calculating the number of large pages
11i Project Mgt required for the SGA: num_of_large_pages = INT((total_SGA_size-
11i procurement 1)/16MB)+1
11i collections 4. Configure the number and size of large pages: #vmo -p -o
lgpg_regions=num_of_large_pages -o lgpg_size=16777216

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Oracle Tuning Book
Oracle RAC Book Asynchronous I/O allows a program to initiate I/O and continue execution of
Oracle Security useful work, while other I/O operations are carried out in parallel by the
Easy Oracle Books operating system. Because Oracle applications often require multiple server and
Oracle Scripts user processes at the same time, they take advantage of asynchronous I/O to
SQL Server DBA overlap program execution with I/O operations.
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Asynchronous I/O is used with Oracle on the AIX operating system to improve
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system performance.
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In AIX V5.2 and newer versions, two asynchronous I/O subsystems are
supported, the original asynchronous I/O (called Legacy asynchronous I/O),
and the new POSIX asynchronous I/O.
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The two types of asynchronous I/O differ in the way the asynchronous I/O
subsystem API is defined. Their performance characteristics are the same. All
Oracle releases up to and including the current release, Oracle Database 10g,
Rednecks! use Legacy asynchronous I/O.
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