If database buffer monitoring indicates that buffer hits are below 85 percent, you can increase the number of database buffers so more records are kept in memory.

To increase the number of buffer hits, increase the -B startup parameter to allocate more buffers. Increase the -B parameter until the buffer hits percentage exceeds 95 percent, or until your system starts paging.

The database engine uses a hash table to reduce the time it takes to locate a database buffer. The Hash Table Entries (-hash) startup parameter controls the number of hash table entries in the buffer pool. The database engine sets this parameter to approximately 25 percent of the number of database buffers (specified by the -B parameter). In most cases, the default value is adequate. However, increasing this parameter might slightly reduce the time required to find a block in the buffer pool.