Low Buffer in ST02

Hi All,
Upon fresh installation of ECC 6.0 EPH7 and then I did a client copy, but upon checking ST02, it seems most of my buffers are low not close to 100 at all (Screenshot below).
I tried to play around with
rsdb/ntab/irbdsize
rsdb/ntab/entrycount
to tweak my initial records but still very low and does not seems to improve,
any steps where I should start beginning to troubleshot?
Thank you,
Regards,
Ura

Hello
HitRatio are not significant after a system restart.
Here you've got low ratio but few DB access, buffer HitRatio should improve with user activity.
1918603 - High swaps in transaction ST02
It is not possible to suggest a precise value for the buffer sizes. The sizes depend on the update
level, amount of data in the system, the applications used, etc. In general, the buffer must always be set
as large as necessary to avoid swaps.
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