An IBM Oracle Technical Brief came out in May entitled Oracle Architecture and Tuning on AIX . There's a lot in it, but the good news is that if you're working on an AIX system that was a fresh install of AIX 6.1 or 7.1, then on the whole the default tuning parameters are what you need. If you're still on AIX 5.3, or if your system was migrated from AIX 5.3 to 6.1 to 7.1, you may need to revisit the tuning parameters. Do it anyway, if you can. There are two items which caught my eye especially from this Oracle Technical Brief: Logical Volume... [More]

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