Re: Strip Sizes

• Todd Carlson <tcarlson_at_tripos.com> on 12/12/01 08:50:26 -0800

> I have a box (HP) with three controllers, not including the OS, with 3
> 18 gig disks each. The app is for testing our product's load times in an
> insert intensive environment. With RAID 0, what OS block and stripe size
> should I use with an 8k Oracle Block size?
>
> I have been reading Oracle Performance Tuning 101, but before I
> implement anything I want the opinion of the list.

If you can make the stripe == system i/o page (variable on HP) then you'll get the best throughput. If Oracle is stuck with 8K page I/O then use an 8k stripe (e.g., 4 PV's at 2K each).

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