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.)