John Papadomichelakis
(michelos@freemail.gr) wrote:
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: Hi..
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: We have an HPUX (HP 9000)systerm with 128MB that will support about 50
: or more users.
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: I believe that currently the database's startup parameters are for SMALL
: size.
: Are there some special parameters I can add to have better performance?
: I notice that changing the shared pool size from the default to a much
: bigger number, I had over 25% increase of speed in some queries.
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: Can I do anything more than that?
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: 
John,

There are too many parameters to go over in an email. I would suggest
reading
"Oracle Performance Tuning" by O'Reilly for Oracle7 databases. If you can
wait a few weeks, two books I co-authored will be coming out with advice
on this subject ("Oracle8 How-To" and "Special Edition: Oracle8").
Until then, it depends alot on your database as to which parameters to
adjust. Some of the more important ones are:

* db_block_buffers (how much data to buffer in memory to avoid going to
disk often). This is in increments of what your db_block_size is set to.
* shared_pool_size (you already tuned this)
* log_buffer
* cpu_count (must have 7.3; determines how many cpus on the box to use)

Best of luck,

-Ari Kaplan
Independent Oracle DBA Consultant

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