You might want to open up a PMR and check with support to see if there
are any APARs that were fixed since fp10 relating to memory and db2pfchr.

Larry Edelstein

Roger wrote:
> I am running a siebel database on Db2 V8.2 32 bit with FP10a. The
> system went to production a week back. After of couple of days we saw
> high memory usage and the system ran out of paging space and crashed.
> We had to restart the AIX and we can see the memory slowly climbing up.
> On investigation, via svmon, we see db2pfchr taking over a 1 GB of
> memory and its slowly increasing.
> Why is db2pfchr taking lot of memory ? is this normal ?
> There is 3 num_ioservers defined
>
> TIA
>
> Roger
>