Subject:            Effect of Setting PCTINCREASE
Author:            RBEARD
Modified:           11 Sep 94 10:06:49           



For all those who thought it would be all right to use the default storage
PCTINCREASE parameter value of 50%:

                Effect of PCTINCREASE values               
                  on INITIAL extent of 10K                 
                                                           
PCT           121st extent (Mb)                  Total (Mb)
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  0                           0                           1
  1                           0                           2
  2                           0                           5
  3                           0                          11
  4                           1                          28
  5                           3                          71
  6                          11                         188
  7                          33                         501
  8                         100                       1,352
  9                         303                       3,665
 10                         905                       9,959
 11                       2,682                      27,064
 12                       7,868                      73,434
 13                      22,862                     198,723
 14                      65,809                     535,869
 15                     187,690                   1,438,956
 16                     530,467                   3,845,889
 17                   1,485,947                  10,226,815
 18                   4,126,111                  27,048,951
 19                  11,358,877                  71,142,442
 20                  31,006,273                 186,037,639
 21                  83,935,268                 483,627,020
 22                 225,361,500               1,249,731,954
 23                 600,224,082               3,209,894,004
 24               1,585,996,640               8,194,315,972
 25               4,158,163,906              20,790,819,531
 26              10,818,460,344              52,427,923,205
 27              27,934,863,789             131,397,322,268
 28              71,597,259,796             327,301,759,068
 29             182,165,143,091             810,320,808,922
 30             460,153,066,110           1,993,996,619,811
 31           1,154,132,104,726           4,877,138,894,165
 32           2,874,562,714,163          11,857,571,195,924
 33           7,110,447,913,467          28,657,259,772,457
 34          17,469,313,841,813          68,849,648,670,674
 35          42,633,625,184,649         164,443,982,855,077
 36         103,363,938,213,716         390,485,988,807,372
 37         248,982,086,539,928         921,906,644,755,948
 38         595,923,362,125,540       2,164,142,736,140,119
 39       1,417,346,624,842,025       5,051,568,739,821,577
 40       3,350,150,556,377,887      11,725,526,947,322,606
 41       7,870,341,225,915,490      27,066,295,435,465,464
 42      18,378,132,119,651,114      62,135,589,547,391,860
 43      42,660,362,272,758,618     141,870,507,093,127,497
 44      98,446,231,204,108,169     322,187,665,758,899,463
 45     225,870,915,193,604,541     727,806,282,290,503,523
 46     515,279,349,034,140,562   1,635,451,846,934,446,132
 47   1,168,907,682,909,889,007   3,655,945,306,122,418,808
 48   2,636,974,261,037,000,680   8,130,670,638,197,418,763
 49   5,916,328,131,386,540,218  17,990,467,175,032,540,663
 50  13,202,346,599,492,990,579  39,607,039,798,478,971,737