Re: RAID

vissuyk_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have got RAID10 disks and my system is IO bound. I thought that RAID
> would take away all striping problems, but that is not necessarily the
> case, why am I having IO issues despite the RAID hw? WIll ASM help
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Vissu

You've got a lot of comment but little substance.

How do you know you are IO bound?
By what means?
Doing what type of transactions?
On what hardware?
With Gig ethernet or Infiniband?
There is a huge amount of information required to know whether ASM, or any other technology, would help.

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