From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Thu Sep 9 16:56:46 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i89LukZ09679 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:56:46 -0500 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i89LujI09674 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:56:46 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 4EA3072DA45; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:58:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02978-88; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:58:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 8DFAD72DDC0; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:57:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:59:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve Rospo X-X-Sender: srospo@sapphire.wa.watchmark.com To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: MEMORY leakage In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-archive-position: 9345 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: srospo@watchmark.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: srospo@watchmark.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at freelists.org On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 J.Velikanovs@alise.lv wrote: > Dinesh, > I would like to recommend you to read this paper: > http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/performance/vmsizing.pdf > In particular read up on file system buffering and forcedirectio (pg 95). We found a huge performance gain on Solaris 2.6 by enabling forcedirectio and priority paging. Post-2.6 priority paging isn't needed but the reduced CPU demands of forceddirectio is very noticeable. S- -- To unsubscribe - mailto:oracle-l-request@freelists.org&subject=unsubscribe To search the archives - http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/