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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Oracle manual : Greater O/S block size......
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gurgaon, DBA (CAP, GECSI, CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> Oracle says "DB block size should be greater than OS block size
> for better performance of your database".
This is a rule of thumb based probably on older filesystems. The more GENERAL rule of thumb is that your Oracle block size should be a multiple of your OS block size, so with Veritas defaults, a multiple of 8k, so 8k, 16k, 32k... Received on Wed Jul 12 2000 - 02:15:16 CDT
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