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Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples
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Understanding DB2®: Learning Visually with Examples

by Raul F. Chong, Clara Liu, Sylvia F. Qi, Dwaine R. Snow
January 2005
Beginner to intermediate
928 pages
22h 14m
English
IBM Press
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15.1. DB2 Memory Allocation: The Big Picture

DB2 allocates memory for three different types of operations.

  • Instance-level operations: DB2 allocates memory for instance-level operations such as accepting connection requests, starting up support to activate a database, and for inter-partition communication if you have a multi-partition system. This is known as instance-level shared memory since it is shared by all databases in the instance and by all applications connecting to databases in the instance. Figure 15.1 shows the components that make up the instance-level shared memory in the top left corner (Per Instance Global Control Block).

    Figure 15.1. The DB2 memory model: the big picture
  • Database-level operations: DB2 also ...

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