Re: Async and Direct I/O On Solaris using VXFS

From: kyle Hailey <kylelf_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:17:12 -0700
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=rTZfYBRQp92zcm-AvFJsOU2FNiQ_at_mail.gmail.com>



The tool "directiostat" looks pretty cool for sparc, on page

http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/downloads/index.php

direct link at

http://www.solarisinternals.com/si/downloads/directiostat

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:57 PM, kyle Hailey <kylelf_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> What platform are you on? For direct I/O on solaris check out
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> \http://www.pythian.com/news/22727/how-to-confirm-direct-io-is-getting-used-on-solaris/
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> Another good reference
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> http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/DirectIO.txt<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fyong321.freeshell.org%2Foranotes%2FDirectIO.txt&h=b8ece>
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> - Kyle
> http://dboptimizer.com
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> 2011/6/27 rajesh koppada <xrajx_at_hotmail.com>
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>> Hello,
>>
>> How can i confirm that oracle will be doing Direct I/O and Asynchronous
>> i/o with following options.
>> Database FILESYSTEMIO_OPTIONS is set to ALL which means to use,
>> setall - Enables both ASYNC and DIRECT IO
>> we are using VERITAS volume manager 5.0 with VXFS filesystems(We don't
>> have QIO or ODM) and file system mount options are set as follows
>> mincache=direct and conovsync=direct
>> Will Oracle is going to use both direct i/o and asynchronous i/o with
>> these file system options.
>> How can we ensure i am getting direct i/o and Async i/o ?
>> can we enable some trace or something just to ensure we are getting both?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Raj
>>
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