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Too few data entries

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If a group buffer pool does not have enough data entries, castout to disk occurs more frequently.

You can see the number of pages cast out by using the GDETAIL option of the DISPLAY
GROUPBUFFERPOOL command.

A more serious data entry shortage is indicated by field E in the DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL
GDETAIL report shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. Example output of group detail statistics

DSNB783I -DB1A CUMULATIVE GROUP DETAIL STATISTICS SINCE 15:35:23 May 17, 2002
DSNB784I -DB1A GROUP DETAIL STATISTICS
READS
DATA RETURNED A = 3845
DSNB785I -DB1A DATA NOT RETURNED
DIRECTORY ENTRY EXISTED B = 27
DIRECTORY ENTRY CREATED C = 28336
DIRECTORY ENTRY NOT CREATED D = 332, 0

DSNB786I -DB1A WRITES

CHANGED PAGES = 20909
CLEAN PAGES = 0
FAILED DUE TO LACK OF STORAGE E = 8
CHANGED PAGES SNAPSHOT VALUE = 974
DSNB787I -DB1A RECLAIMS
FOR DIRECTORY ENTRIES F = 18281
FOR DATA ENTRIES = 47
CASTOUTS = 16073
DSNB788I -DB1A CROSS INVALIDATIONS
DUE TO DIRECTORY RECLAIMS G = 4489
DUE TO WRITES = 3624
EXPLICIT = 0
DSNB762I -DB1A DUPLEXING STATISTICS FOR GBP0-SEC
WRITES
CHANGED PAGES = 20909
FAILED DUE TO LACK OF STORAGE = 8
CHANGED PAGES SNAPSHOT VALUE = 974
DSNB790I -DB1A DISPLAY FOR GROUP BUFFER POOL GBP0 IS COMPLETE
DSN9022I -DB1A DSNB1CMD 'DISPLAY GROUPBUFFERPOOL' NORMAL COMPLETION

A value in this field indicates that the data page resources of the coupling facility are being consumed
faster than the Db2 castout processes can free them.
You can increase the number of data entries in the group buffer pool in one of two ways:
– Increase the total size of the group buffer pool.
– Use the ALTER GROUPBUFFERPOOL command to adjust the ratio in favor of data entries.

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Parent topic:
Determining the correct size and ratio of group buffer pools

Related concepts

Changing the size of the group buffer pool

Related tasks

Changing the ratio of directory to data entries

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