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Using AIX 64K Active Memory Expansion with SAP

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Abstract

AIX Active Memory Expansion (AME) is a feature that has been available for a long time in AIX. With AME enabled, you can expand the memory of your AIX logical partition without adding real memory to it. This document focuses on AME and its 64K page support when applied to SAP workload. It contains the result of performance measurements with the SAP SD benchmark workload and gives general recommendations how to find optimal AME expansion factors.

Content

For a general overview of AME see: AIX Active Memory Expansion (AME)
Frequently asked questions about AME are answered here: FAQ Active Memory Expansion (AME)

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Modified date:
21 March 2023

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