Base the size on how often you want to change journal receivers

This topic lists the steps necessary to determine a receiver threshold, based on how often you want to change journal receivers.

Base the size on how often you want to change journal receivers:
  1. Use the one of the methods described in Methods to estimate the size of a journal receiver to calculate how large your receiver can be for a day. If you are just journaling database physical files, you can use the Journal receiver calculator to estimate the size of your journal receiver.
  2. Determine how many times a day you will detach and save the journal receiver.
  3. Divide the result of step 1 by the result of step 2. This is your receiver threshold.

Do not make the journal receiver size too small, or the system will spend too much resource changing journal receivers or sending threshold messages. To avoid possible problems with a journal receiver exceeding the maximum size allowed on the system, specify a threshold for the receiver of no more than 900 000 000 KB if you specify a maximum receiver-size option for the associated journal. Otherwise, specify a threshold of no more than 1 441 000 KB.

Manual versus system journal-receiver management discusses options for managing your journal receivers.

Parent topic: Start of changeThreshold (disk space) for journal receiversEnd of change