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Reference : PROMON Utility : R&D Status Displays : Buffer Cache
 
Buffer Cache
Displays status information about buffers.

PROMON Buffer Cache Status display

The following shows a sample Buffer Cache Status display.
09/25/11              Status: Buffer Cache
16:21

Total buffers:                   170
Hash Table Size:                 43
Used Buffers:                    57
Empty Buffers:                   113
On lru Chain:                    168
On lru2 Chain:                   168
On apw queue:                    0
On ckp queue:                    0
Modified buffers:                170
Marked for ckp:                  0
Last checkpoint number:          0
LRU force skips: 0
LRU2 force skips: 0
The display contains the following fields:
*Total buffers — The total number of buffers in the buffer cache.
*Hash Table Size — The size of the buffer hash table.
*Used Buffers — The number of buffers currently in use.
*Empty Buffers — The number of empty buffers.
*On lru Chain — The number of buffers on the least recently used (LRU) chain.
*On lru2 Chain — The number of buffers on the least recently used (LRU) chain for the Alternate Buffer Pool (-B2).
*On apw queue — The number of buffers on the page writer queue.
*On ckp queue — The number of buffers on the checkpoint queue.
*Modified buffers — The number of dirty (modified) buffers.
*Marked for ckp — The number of buffers currently marked for checkpoint.
*Last checkpoint number — The most recent checkpoint number. As checkpoints begin, they are assigned a sequential number from the start of the session. The number is also the number of checkpoints that have occurred.
*LRU force skips — The number of times to access a buffer before moving it to the end of the LRU chain. (A value of 0 indicates this feature is disabled.)
*LRU2 force skips — The number of times to access a buffer in the alternate buffer pool before moving it to the end of the LRU chain. (A value of 0 indicates this feature is disabled.)