Spotlight on DB2 6.10 - Release Notes

Agents Created from Pool

The number of agents created from an empty agent pool. It includes the agents started when DB2 was started. Consider the following:

• A high ratio of created agents can indicate two things:

  • The NUM_POOLAGENTS parameter should be increased.
  • The overall workload for this partition is too high. Try lowering the number of coordinating agents or reducing the workload.
• A low ratio could indicate that NUM_POOLAGENTS is set too high. What this means is there are seldom used agents residing in the pool that are unnecessarily using system resources.