Re: Advice on running Oracle with SGA > 20 GB

From: Mladen Gogala <no_at_email.here.invalid>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:53:23 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <pan.2010.02.02.17.53.23_at_email.here.invalid>



On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:02:08 -0800, vsevolod afanassiev wrote:

> Linux is a bit different as there is no direct I/O (as far as I know),
> unless you use raw devices or ASM.

Huh? There is direct I/O, I am using it for years, I have even been writing about it..

> So memory that doesn't get allocated to SGA will be used for filesystem
> buffer cache.

Yup. That's why I use direct I/O.

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