Re: Oracle Tnuning---Block Size, How much difference?

From: Steve Adams <steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:03:07 GMT
Message-ID: <7fg25l$tpf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

An 8K database block size is optimal for Solaris.

In article <q3KS2.884$jz6.3138781_at_firenze.visi.net>, "Sean Zhang" <sean_at_cnfei.com> wrote:
> Hello, Everybody,
>
> Recently I upgraded our system from Oracle 8 ->Oracle 8i,
> ( in Sun E3000 with Solaris 2.6).
> During the upgrade, I used Export utilities to build a whole new
> database, and the block size was also changed from 4K-> 2K.
> Now I feel the new system is a bit slower than the old system. I read
> some technical books , which say bigger block size could dramatically
> increase the performace, but Oracle documentations stress the
> default block size (2 K) is optimal for our system. I don't know which is
> true
> OR whether the change of block size is the problem making the new
> system slower.
>
> Any suggestions and advices are greatly appreciated.
>
> Sean Zhang
> mailto:sean_at_cnfei.com
>
>

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