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I have
actually been doing a fair it of reading on this since the topic was brought up,
and stand corrected, as earlier mentioned. But I have to say guys that NT is
still fairly "pants" when it comes to handling multi threaded processes.. Win2K
is a great improvement but M$ still has a lot of work to do on in my view. (only
when you compare this against UNIX)
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Now
don't get me wrong, there is enough traffic on this list about this at the
moment, so I dont want more bandwith added with this thread if at all possible
:)
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Thanks
for the reply anyway Yong, I think I will wait for a "good" book on Win2k to
come out (unless you know one?) before I go out and buy one (books come out of
my pocket as I am a sales person mostly).. NT as far as I am concerned is
now in Win2K's shadow, and I think that is the way of the future for Windowze
bound people.
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For
all out there that have used NT and not Win2K - TRY IT.. Services are handled a
LOT better, file management and sharing.. All sorts of new fun stuff to sink
your teeth in to..
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As a
side note, for the last line of my first paragraph - I also feel that UNIX
cannot be compared in anyway to Windows at this time. Windowze O/S's are
designed for pointy clicky people that prefer to look at a nice GUI interface,
and generally don't have the indepth technical knowledge that a good UNIX sys
admin does..
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(If
there any NT admins out there don't flame me, I have to deal with it every day
of my life...)
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The
views expressed here are soley those coming out of my coffee deprived hungover
mind.. They do not express those of my employers, though I'm sure they agree
:^)
<FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----From: root_at_fatcity.com
[mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Mohan, RossSent:
Friday, February 02, 2001 07:00To: Multiple recipients of list
ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Async I/O on Windows
Oracle on NT runs as
ONE PROCESS
with
MULTIPLE THREADS
for performance reasons (no more need
for shared memory....context switches are a LOT less
expensive, etc.)
-----Original Message----- From: yong
huang [mailto:yong321_at_yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 12:51 PM <FONT
size=2>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <FONT
size=2>Subject: Async I/O on Windows
Hi, Mark,
Async I/O is available on Windows, at least NT. It's not an
easy topic. If you think you already know enough about
operating systems in general, I suggest you read David
Solomon's "Inside WindowsNT". For a lab test, launch Performance
Monitor on your NT box and look at the counters for
Cache.
I'm not sure by "single thread management" whether you mean NT
can't have multiple processes or Oracle on NT runs as
one thread. The former is obviously wrong. The latter
is a design issue inside Oracle Corporation and the question <FONT
size=2>as to why was asked on this forum before without an answer (without an
answer I can remember, that is).
Yong Huang yong321_at_yahoo.com
you wrote:
Asynch I/O on a Windowze box? supresses a snigger...
To the best of my knowledge there are no Windows based system that can take advantage of this, single thread management can be enough a problem sometimes..
But, I may be wrong.. List?
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