Allocating physical resources is providing Adaptive Server the memory, disk space, worker processes, and CPU power required to achieve your performance and recovery goals. When installing a new server, every system administrator must make decisions about resource utilization. If you upgrade your platform, or if the design of your database system changes, you must also reallocate Adaptive Server resources by adding new memory, disk controllers, or CPUs. Early benchmarking of Adaptive Server and your applications can help you identify hardware resource deficiencies that create performance bottlenecks.
See Chapter 16, “Overview of Disk Resources” in Volume 2 of the System Administration Guide: Volume 2 to understand the kinds of disk resources required by Adaptive Server. See also see Chapter 3, “Configuring Memory,” in System Administration Guide: Volume 2 and Chapter 5, Managing Mulitprocessor Servers,” in System Administration Guide: Volume 2 for information about memory and CPU resources.
The following sections provide helpful pointers in determining physical resource requirements.
