Re: Performance and I/O

Hi duane,

Oracle said -not- to use raw filesystems on RS6k in the past, because there was a performance -decrease-.

I recommend not to use raw partitions (backup, ease of administration etc).

I doubt that you will gain more than 10 % performance.

Best regards,

Toni

In article <369op1$if$1_at_mhadg.production.compuserve.com>, duane <74271.1446_at_CompuServe.COM> wrote:

> Does anyone have any rule of thumb, etc., for estimating the
> overall system performance benefit of running Oracle in an Oracle
> "native" filesystem vs. using journalled filesystems as found on
> IBM's AIX? Is it a potential 20% increase? 5%? 25%? I know
> this is one of those "your mileage will vary" concerns, but does
> anyone have even a ballpark estimate of what one might achieve?
>
> --
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