Dear All,

I run ASA 9.0.2 build 3044 on SunOS Release 5.9 Generic_118558-06. The
Solaris box has 8GB RAM.

I try to run the following command to start up the ASA 9 database server
with an initial cache size of 2GB:

dbsrv9 -ud -gk all -m -c 2048M -ca 0 -ti 0 -o <output log file name> -os
102400 -n <DB Name> <db script name>

However, according to what returned by the "top" command, the ASA 9 database
server has only got the initial cache size of 937MB.

PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
256 root 33 58 0 937M 934M cpu0 90.6H 38.21% dbsrv9

Nevertheless, there is no such problem in ASA 8.0.1. If I run ASA 8.0.1
with the same parameters on the same box, it can correctly take 2GB space
according to the -c option.

Has anyone encountered similar problem before? Any pointer or information
is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.

Thanks and Best Regards,
Monica

In 9.0.x when the engine starts it allocates address space for the cache
but does not physically "commit" the memory to the process, so this could
be the reason why you are seeing the difference.

If you add -z -cs to the command line, what size of cache does the server say
that it is using?
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Mark Culp
SQLAnywhere Research and Development
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Monica wrote: