Return-path: Envelope-to: oracle-l@orafaq.net Delivery-date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 03:56:26 +0800 Received: from newsfeed.cts.com ([209.68.248.164]) by jean.onefuse.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17pwYE-0004KH-00 for oracle-l@orafaq.net; Sat, 14 Sep 2002 03:56:26 +0800 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id MAA35761; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b72/bab) via UUCP id 004CFD98; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:29:36 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:29:36 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Fink, Dan" Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Fink, Dan" Subject: RE: Misinformation Ranting Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 72; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The new IID disks do not need _spin_count since they are spinning forward, spinning backward and not spinning all at the same time... I go where my towel goes. "WHOOP" -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:23 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How do you set _spin_count for the new infinite improbability driven disks? Do you have to have your towel always with you? > -----Original Message----- > From: Fink, Dan [mailto:Dan.Fink@mdx.com] > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 1:18 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: Misinformation Ranting > > > So, if we set _spin_count to a negative number, does this > force the disks to > spin backwards? This way you could reverse all the > transactions that are on > the disk! > > -dwf > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:33 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tim Gorman [mailto:Tim@SageLogix.com] > > Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:23 AM > > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > Subject: Re: Misinformation Ranting > > > > > > Bad as your experience is, be grateful you weren't confronted > > with this > > beauty in the one-world of JD Edwards: > > > > >> At XXXXXXXX they're having wonderful problems. But what > > >> really started this is a detail from their > recommendations that you > > >> missed last year: in there they suggest that you count > the number > > >> of disk drives in your system and multiply by the rpm count. The > > >> result should then be used to set "_spin_count". So if you have 5 > > >> disks and they do 10000 rpm (each :) ), then "_spin_count" should > > >> be set to 50000 > > > > The mind reels... > > > > ...after all, what else could a parameter named > "_spin_count" possibly > > represent? :-) > > We all know that _spin_count actually represents number of > seconds that > the world needs to spin around. That number is, as you know, highly > volatile. The world has spun much faster when I read your piece about > disks, rpms and _spin_count. > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Gogala, Mladen > INET: MGogala@oxhp.com > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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