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RE: Way to create large block size under LINUX for ORACLE dataabase??

From: Magni Fabrizio <Fabrizio.Magni_at_rasnet.it>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:17:06 +0100
Message-ID: <BFCF159FFD14F444B205968F32DBD5BB017008C3@MAILEX01.rasgroup.ita.localnet>


On 32bit linux systems (and x86-64 as well) you are limited by the memory page size which is 4K.

Personally I know only alpha (where you can arrive to 8k) and itanium (64k) where linux kernel permits the change of pagesize.

Regards
Fabrizio

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> Subject: Way to create large block size under LINUX for
> ORACLE dataabase??
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> We have ORACLE database on DELL Redhat AS 3.6. The server is
> dedicate for database purpose. I checked Redhat manual and
> found "mke2fs" can ONLY create file system block size=1k, 2k and 4k.
>
> Does there has way like SUN Solaris I can create file system
> blocksize like 128K?
>
> Thanks.
>
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