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Re: forcedirectio on; more disks, performance degrading? (Solaris, Veritas VM, Oracle 7)

From: Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2000 09:29:06 GMT
Message-ID: <389d39a0.2505549@news-server>


On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 19:58:19 -0600, "spencer" <spencerp_at_swbell.net> wrote:

>
>With Oracle8 (i'm not sure about 7.3) you can increase the
>number of database writer processes to improve performance,
>because the multiple DBWx processes emulate "async i/o".

Yes, 7.3 does it too. So did 6. I can't remember if 5 did it...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Sun Feb 06 2000 - 03:29:06 CST

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