Re: ORADIM needs 4 minutes (ORA 817 on NT with soft raid)

Christine Zhao wrote:

> But NT software Raid is very very slow though. I imported a 10 G DB
> to one machine with NT software raid and it took 16 hours. I imported
> the same DB to
> a hardware raid machine and it took 8 hours.
>
> Christine
> "Christian Greven" <greven.christian_at_baufeldt.de> wrote in message news:<9hho4o$oj$01$1_at_news.t-online.com>...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I installed a new server with Oracle 8.1.7. The oradim needs about 4
> > minutes. I find that's not normal!
> >
> > The server: HP Vectra PIII 1GH, 512 MB Ram, NT4 SP6
> >
> > Are there any known problems with NT Software Raid, HP Tools or Adaptec
> > Direct CD (installed from customer, not my idea)???
> > The oracle installation is on d:, with a span over two harddisks.
> >
> > Some select return other results as on an other server with same db
> > (exp/imp).
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Christian.

RAID affects writing to the hard disk. I'm not sure how that could affect anything ORADIM does. The largest file it would normally write would be measure in KB ... not MB.

Daniel A. Morgan Received on Sat Jun 30 2001 - 21:03:08 CDT