Re: How to enable Async I/O on Solaris

At 11:30 AM 11/10/00 -0800, you wrote:
>The default for disk_async_io is true.
>
>Either async i/o is support or not. T'ain't supported on
>Solaris unless you have raw devices.

This is news, solaris used to support async i/o on cooked devices when did this change?

>Oracle defaults async_io to true on Solaris for two reasons:
>1) If not available, the call _should_ fail quickly, Oracle retries
>without async.
>
>2) Just in case you have one or more raw devices, Oracle will
>automatically issue async_io calls utilizing them.
>
>I'm not using raw. I have disk_async_io=false in my init files.
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> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have enabled disk_async_io to TRUE at the database level. Is there a
> > configuration parameter on Solaris that you need to set to enable Async I/O
> > at O/S level?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jay
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