Re: DBWR more active than its children

Problem is, on the first system where I activated multiple dbwr's, it's the children who do most of the work, and this system has a much better performance.

Any other ideas?

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(G.Pille_at_company-benelux.be; ghp_at_skynet.be) Jonathan Lewis heeft geschreven in bericht <01bde257$360f81e0$0300a8c0_at_WORKSTATION>...
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>If 'more active' means 'using more CPU' then this is arguably
>reasonable. When you have multiple writers, dbwr takes a block
>and passes it to a child, the child writes it and informs dbwr.
>
>The CPU cost of this activity is similar at both ends of the
>parent/child
>dialogue, and the CPU cost to the child of invoking a write is not
>going
>to make much difference. So if you have 8 children then dbwr is
>going
>to be more busy than any of its children.
>

... Received on Thu Sep 17 1998 - 13:15:53 CDT