Re: Synchronous writes & TEMP

Frank,

Asynchronous IO is irrelevant to my question. The question is why Oracle uses synchronous OS write calls when data integrity is _not_ at stake (or is it) ?

Regards.

VC

"Frank van Bortel" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message news:c838er$fsc$1_at_news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl...
> VC wrote:
>
>
> I'd say Karsten had a plausible explanation: the process
> that needs temp to be written has nothing better to do
> than wait - so why bother with an extra communications
> process and async writes when there's a synchronous write,
> that will only return when done?
>
> Ready to be beaten up, technically speaking ;)
> --
>
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>
Received on Fri May 14 2004 - 15:42:24 CDT