Re: Filesystem blocksize for archive logs on AIX

From: Rich Jesse <rjoralist3_at_society.servebeer.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:38:23 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <1c0d399a8ffb50e70391ae27fe63cde5.squirrel_at_society.servebeer.com>



Ls Cheng replies:

> With redo log it does make a hell lot of difference, a few months ago with
> the objective of reducinjg log file sync waits, when redo are moved to 512
> bytes FS from 4K FS log file sync time was improved at 55%, more or less
> from average 13 ms to 6 ms, but the big difference is after reconfiguring 2
> log file member to 1, 6ms was reduced to 1.5ms roughly.

So you only have 1 member per redo log group? Even with a decent SAN to provide hardware mirroring, that setup would make me nervous, having experienced file system corruption before. But the numbers are interesting.

Anyone else only running 1 log member per group in production?

Thanks!
Rich

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