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Common Reference

Memory Requirements

Memory requirements are dependent on the workload being used and applied, but the following provide some guidance on the basic requirements:

  • Tungsten Replicator requires 2GB of VM space for the Java execution, including the shared libraries, with approximate 1GB of Java VM heapspace. This can be adjusted as required, for example, to handle larger transactions or bigger commit blocks and large packets.
  • Performance can be improved within the Tungsten Replicator if there is a 2-3GB available in the OS Page Cache. Replicators work best when pages written to replicator log files remain memory-resident for a period of time, so that there is no file system I/O required to read that data back within the replicator. This is the biggest potential point of contention between replicators and DBMS servers.
  • Tungsten Manager (within Tungsten Cluster) requires approximately 500MB of VM space for execution.