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Re: Switch off WinNT cache on small Oracle7 System?

From: Terry Dykstra <tdykstra_at_cfol.ab.ca>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:53:35 -0600
Message-ID: <370cfb00.0@news.cadvision.com>


I would really try to increase the memory to 128Mb.

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Terry Dykstra (TeamPS)
Canadian Forest Oil Ltd.
Frank Rünagel wrote in message <370bb99a.0_at_news.arkaden.net>...
>Hi!
>
>Makes it sense to switch off the disk-caching on an Oracle
>7.3 Server to get more free memory for the SGA?
>The System is a 166Mhz Pentium, 64 MB Ram and Raid5 USCSI,
>max. 12 users are logged in.
>The server is exclusively used for Oracle. I have read that
>Oracle has its own caching system and bypasses write-caching
>on security reasons. So: what sense makes the WinNT-cache any
>more?
>Makes it sense to increase SGA and to set the cache to 0 to ged
>rid of swapping?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Frank
>Frank Ruenagel
>Duesseldorf, Germany
>frank.ruenagelATneuss.netsurf.de
>
Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 13:53:35 CDT

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