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Monitoring Physical and Logical Logging Activity

This section discusses monitoring the physical-log file, physical-log buffers, and logical-log buffers.

Monitor the physical log to determine the percentage of the physical-log file that gets used before a checkpoint occurs. This information allows you to find the optimal size of the physical-log file. It should be large enough that the database server does not have to force checkpoints too frequently and small enough to conserve disk space and guarantee fast recovery.

Monitor physical-log and logical-log buffers to determine if they are the optimal size for the current level of processing. The important statistic to monitor is the pages-per-disk-write statistic. For more information on tuning the physical-log and logical-log buffers, see your IBM Informix: Performance Guide.

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