Shared Memory/Segment Size

["dlangschied" <dlangschied ameritech net>]

Hi all!
I have a system with 1 Gig of memory.  I have a Progress (similar to Oracle)
database on this system.  I want to optimize the shared memory for my
database, yet I don't want to starve the OS.  Question one:  What percentage
of the system memory needs to be available to the system?  Question two:
How does the memory size and segment relate to each other?  Question three:
What are the units for these values in the kernel tuning
(Mbytes?Kbytes?Bytes?) they are not listed?

Please advise.

Sincerely,

David Langschied
Langschied Consulting Services
25644 Mackinac
Roseville, MI 48066

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