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Re: i/o parameters on oracle and sun

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 10:31:41 -0000
Message-ID: <979814882.27443.0.nnrp-02.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

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.

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Connor McDonald wrote in message <3A643625.979_at_yahoo.com>...

>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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