RE: DBWR - How Many is Too Many?

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 09:13 -0500, Mark W. Farnham wrote:

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> Finally, coming to the end of my off the top of my head list of things
> I’d give a quick check, is the wait i/o on your system actually from
> the dbwriters? From the database you’ve also got the log writer and
> the archiver and you didn’t mention any data guard issues, but you’ve
> probably also got sys admins practicing backup and recovery using
> spare space on your disk farm. It is a NEW SAN, right?

It seems you have put your control file / online redo log files also on CIO/JFS2 devices? From what I have understood about this matter, OLRF should _not_ be on CIO mounted devices, because LGWR will write small chunks (typically 512bytes) and the Filesystem has bigger blocks (e.g. 8K). When on CIO/DIO, every write by LGWR forces the OS to read the 8K block, fit the 512 bytes at the correct position, and write it back. Some FS caching there is quite helpfil then: Just fit the 512 bytes where it belongs, and write the block, keeping it in cache. The same for control files, and archived redo log files. Only data files should be on CIO filesystems. IIRC.

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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