-bufalloc

Displays information on the main or temp buffer allocator, which reserves space in the buffer cache for objects like sorts, hashes, and bitmaps.

Usage

monitor_options -bufalloc

Output

-bufalloc Output Fields

Output field

Description

OU

User_Resource_Reservation option setting (formerly Optimize_For_This_Many_Users)

AU

Current number of active users

MaxBuf

Number buffers under control of the buffer allocator

Avail

Number of currently available buffers for pin quota allocation

AvPF

Number of currently available buffers for prefetch quota allocation

Slots

Number of currently registered objects using buffer cache quota

PinUser

Number of objects (for example, hash, sort, and B-tree objects) using pin quota

PFUsr

Number of objects using prefetch quota

Posted

Number of objects that are pre-planned users of quota

UnPost

Number of objects that are ad hoc quota users

Locks

Number of mutex locks taken on the buffer allocator

Waits

Number of times a thread had to wait for the lock

Related reference
-summary
-cache
-cache_by_type
-file_suffix
-io
-contention
-threads
-interval
-append | - truncate
-debug