Syntax options: GLOBAL BUFFERS ARE ENABLED | GLOBAL BUFFERS ARE DISABLED Specifies that Oracle Rdb maintains one global buffer pool per VMScluster node for each database. By default, Oracle Rdb maintains a local buffer pool for each attach. For more than one attach to use the same page, each must read it from disk into its local buffer pool. A page in the global buffer pool may be read by more than one attach at the same time, although only one process reads the page from the disk into the global buffer pool. Global buffering provides improved performance because I/O is reduced and memory is better utilized. NOTE If GALAXY SUPPORT is enabled, then a single global buffer pool is shared by all Galaxy nodes.