RE: perplexing performance on AIX

Have you tried decreasing the degree of parallelism (or maybe even disabling it) to see if that helps? Sometimes too much parallelism is a bad thing.  

You might also want to consider using concurrent IO if you're not already.  

Regards,
Brandon    

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