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immediately after a checkpoint?
(And thanks to all who replied!!)
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Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 3:10 PM
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At startup????
At 01:53 PM 4/7/03 -0800, you wrote:
>Nick - Data buffers. Specifically dirty data buffers (modified). The Oracle
>secret to high transaction throughput is that it never writes anything to
>disk until to optimum time. An Oracle trivia question (as in OCP trivia) is
>"when does the Oracle data buffer contain no dirty buffers?".
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>Dennis Williams
>DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
>Lifetouch, Inc.
>dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:04 PM
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>according to the Oracle documentation for FAST_START_IO_TARGET...
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>Set this parameter to n, where n is an integer limiting to n the number of
>"buffers" that Oracle processes during crash or instance recovery. Because
>the number of I/Os to be processed during recovery correlates closely to
the
>duration of recovery, the FAST_START_IO_TARGET parameter gives you the most
>precise control over the duration of recovery.
>BM_434315
>FAST_START_IO_TARGET advances the checkpoint, because DBWn uses the value
of
>FAST_START_IO_TARGET to determine how much writing to do. Assuming that
>users are making many updates to the database, a low value for this
>parameter forces DBWn to write changed "buffers" to disk. As the changed
>"buffers" are written to disk, the checkpoint advances.
>BM_434316
>The smaller the value of FAST_START_IO_TARGET, the better the recovery
>performance, because fewer blocks require recovery. If you use smaller
>values for this parameter, however, then you impose higher overhead during
>normal processing, because DBWn must write more buffers to disk more
>frequently.
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>
>My question... which "buffers" are they referring to here? The log buffer?
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>Thanks!!
>
>Nick
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