This screen graphically displays, in general terms, the
effectiveness of the global buffer pool for sharing of pages.
This screen contains the following fields of header information:
o Total Global Buffers- indicates the total number of buffers in
the database global buffer pool.
o Maximum Global Buffer Pages- indicates the maximum number
of pages that can reside in the global buffer pool. The
actual number of pages may be less than this value because
of different page sizes for different storage areas.
o Number of Unused Buffers- indicates the number of buffers that
are completely empty and do not contain ANY pages. This field
should always display the value "0"; any other value indicates
that the global buffer pool may be sized too large for the
currently running application.
o Number of Active Pages- indicates the actual number of pages
contained in the global buffer pool; this value will probably
be less than the Maximum Global Buffer Pages field. Active
pages can include unreferenced pages.
o Number of Unused Pages- indicates the number of pages in the
global buffer pool that are not currently referenced by any
process.
o Number of Unshared Pages- indicates the number of pages in the
global buffer pool referenced by exactly one process.
The histogram graphically displays the number of processes
referencing each page in the global buffer pool. Because of the
limited space on the histogram, each asterisk ("*") may represent
more than one page; the actual number of pages represented is
identified in the footer information.
This screen is not saved in the binary output file and cannot be
selected during binary file replay.