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Re: Urgent - async io

From: Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:10:20 GMT
Message-ID: <3AE4E046.63A641A3@home.com>

Ivan Bajon wrote:
>
> Hi Folks
>
> (NT - 8.1.6)
>
> We're moving most of our in house Oracle installations to a Dell SAN
> (PowerVault 660F/224F). We get an "OSD-04016 Error queueing an asynchronius
> IO request"
> Now, I fixed the problem by disabling disk_asynch_io in init.ora but the
> documentation states that I should set up multiple dbwr slaves to accomodate
> for the loss of performance. I hope I'm wrong but I seem to remember that
> there's been some problems with dbwr slaves on 8i. Can anybody confirm/deny
> this? How's the performance of using dbwr slaves compared to using asynch
> io?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Ivan Bajon, ocp

Ivan,

Oracle 8.1.x on NT/W2K does not support multiple DBWRn processes. Its in the platform-specific docs.

Paul Received on Mon Apr 23 2001 - 21:10:20 CDT

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