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This parameter can be useful in an environment in which peak usage
requirements exceed system resources for memory, CPU, and disk. For
example, in such an environment, paging might cause performance
degradation for peak load periods. You can use this parameter to control the
load and avoid performance degradation, although it can affect either
concurrency or wait time, or both.
The snapshot monitor provides some information about the activity of the agents.
When taking a snapshot of the database manager and
grep for agent you will see
information like that shown in Example 7-9.
Example 7-9 Agent ...