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Question
What are system bufferpools?
Cause
The System bufferpools are created by DB2 itself for emergency situations and used when the regular bufferpools or bufferpool configured for the database could not be allocated.
Answer
To ensure that an appropriate buffer pool is available in all circumstances, DB2 creates small system buffer pools, one with each of the following page sizes: 4 KB, 8 KB, 16 KB, and 32 KB. The size of each buffer pool is 16 pages. These buffer pools are hidden; they are not in the system catalog or in the buffer pool system files. These could not be used or altered directly.
Usually, these hidden system bufferpools are used when the main bufferpools could not be allocated due to insufficient memory or, other similar situations. These are used to avoid failure of functioning of the DB2 database. But, one should not continue to run a database which failed to allocate the main bufferpools and using the system bufferpools temporarily. Instead, fix the main bufferpool allocation failure reason and start using the normal bufferpools as soon as possible.
The name of the system bufferpools for four different page sizes :
IBMSYSTEMBP4K
IBMSYSTEMBP8K
IBMSYSTEMBP16K
IBMSYSTEMBP32K
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16 June 2018
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