Re: lgwr performing direct i/o on unix platforms?

Frank wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> a question recently came to my mind: is the lgwr process performing
> direct I/O on writing the redo logs on disk (direct i/o = no filesystem
> cache is used)? In other words, is it using a write-through-cache when
> writing the redo's on disk? On the unix platform it is.
>
> Regards,
> Frank

on most unixes you'll need to mount the filesystem that the redo logs are on as direct IO, or use raw

hth
connor

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