Re: sun solaris / oracle tuning ideas

I guess that is 1 single RAID-5 array?
Make sure the online redolog files and the controlfiles are *not* located on RAID-5. This is an ultimate bottleneck for any Oracle database, let alone for a dot com.
Other than that this is of course a way to broad question. Books have been written about the interaction between Unix and Oracle. You may want to check
James Morle Scaling Oracle 8i.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"B. Keith Murphy" <murphy70_at_pacbell.net> wrote in message news:IeyV5.40219$Wq1.15878382_at_nnrp5-w.sbc.net...
> I am the sys admin at one of those "dot coms". We are running a Sun ultra
 2
> with 2 cpu's running Solaris 2.6 and Oracle 8i. It has a A1000 disk raid
> array holding the data for the database. Right now our I/O is running at
> around 20% and management is getting a little nervous. Wants to know what
> we can do to upgrade things to increase response time. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Keith Murphy
>
>
Received on Thu Nov 30 2000 - 14:02:42 CST