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Re: Why would installing Oracle 10g decrease overall disk performance?

From: Andreas Sheriff <spamcontrol_at_iion.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:50:10 -0700
Message-ID: <eZyPe.3038$Ix4.128@okepread03>

"StefanKapitza" <skapitza_at_volcanomail.com> wrote in message news:1125038572.907967.175410_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Wes Harrison wrote:
> > I am installing Oracle 10g 10.2.01 on Windows Server 2003 SP1 32-bit
edition
> > but for some strange reason the overall performance of the disks on the
> > server decreases after it is installed. I know this because I am using
> > SiSoft SANDRA Pro to do a File System Benchmark before and after the
> > installation. Before, the drive index is about 80MB/S but this
decreases by
> > half after Oracle is installed. If I uninstall Oracle, the drive index
> > returns to about 80. Reinstall Oracle and it goes back down to about
40.
> >
> > No other package that I have installed on this server has had this
effect.
> > So I figured it must have something to do with fragmentation but the
results
> > are unchanged after a full defrag.
> >
> > What could be causing this? Is it an error in the benchmark? Does it
have
> > something to do with some of the Oracle processes interfering with
SANDRA
> > Pro? It can't be just coincidence as I have repeated the test several
> > times.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wes
>
> and what rate does a copy to dev null give ?
>
> regards
>
> Stefan Kapitza
>

He's using windows.

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Andreas Sheriff
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Oracle 10g Certified Professional
Oracle 9i Certified PL/SQL Developer
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