DLPAR and Memory



Hi, we have a P590 with 2 lpars. We have found something interesting
and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this:

We are running out of memory on one of the lpars and it starts to
thrash a little because of so many processes on Oracle. Then we add a
little memory OR remove a little bit of memory and it releases about
30%-40% of the memory during the process of adding or removing!

The lpar we tested this on has about 42GB of memory.
We are running only one instance of Oracle 9i DB that is about 400GB
total size.
This has consistently happened everytime we add or remove any amount of
memory.

Has anyone else seen this? If so, do you know what the process is that
releases the memory and how to invoke this process from the
command-line?


Thank you,
--flossy

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