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More particularly, you do not want a single multiblock read to be larger than the amount of data that can be found on a single disk (unless the system is a single user system) otherwise a single Oracle read request ends up queuing and blocking on more than one device.
-- Jonathan Lewis Yet another Oracle-related web site: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk Practical Oracle 8i: Building Efficient Databases Publishers: Addison-Wesley See a first review at: http://www.ixora.com.au/resources/index.htm#practical_8i More reviews at: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/book_rev.html Connor McDonald wrote in message <3A643625.979_at_yahoo.com>...Received on Thu Jan 18 2001 - 04:31:41 CST
>thus smaller stripe sizes could perform better - but as you said, you
>would not want a single multblock read to be larger than no. disks *
>stripe size since you would get nasty 'wraparound'.
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