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Re: RAID: Advantage or disaster?

From: John Jones <john.jones_at_duke.edu>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:50:37 -0500
Message-ID: <9ulfp5$oc0$1@news.duke.edu>


tried your SQL, what is the tot_read_writes table ??????

--
John Jones
Senior Oracle DBA
Duke University, OIT
john.jones_at_duke.edu
"Geoff Reader" <grr_at_NOSPAM.bton.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:3C0E1EF9.2EE88241_at_NOSPAM.bton.ac.uk...

> We had similar problems with a database here, that had all the data
> files on the same filesystem.
> If you look at File IO, you may find its one file causing most of the
> bottleneck. In our case it was TEMP.
> So we moved this onto another filesystem (not raided incidentally as its
> write intensive). And no more problems...
> Heres teh File IO SQL to be run as system, it works on 7.3.4 and I think
> on 8i, I'm not certain of that mind.
> Good luck.
>
>
> SELECT name, phyrds, phyrds * 100 / trw.phys_reads read_pct,
> phywrts, phywrts * 100 / trw.phys_wrts write_pct,
> db.tablespace_name
> FROM tot_read_writes trw, v$datafile df, v$filestat
> fs,dba_data_files db
> WHERE df.file# = fs.file#
> and df.file# = file_id
>
> Geoff
> Geoff Reader
> University of Brighton
>
> Andy Kent wrote:
> >
> > What do people think about the use of RAID for an IDS database these
days?
> > Better, worse, or about the same on balance as JABOD? Any RAID levels to
> > prefer / avoid?
> >
> > A client of mine is running RAID 5 on Compaq, and is getting 100% disk
i/o
> > and frequent crashes. I haven't been able to look closely enough to
> > establish whether it's the RAID 5 that's causing this, but anyway
they're
> > moving to a bigger box and planning to go RAID 5 again.
> >
> > Conventional wisdom and past experience tells me this would be a
disaster.
> > Has the technology moved on so as to tip the scales?
> >
> > --
> > -Andy Kent-
> > Bristol, England
> >
> > Remove '.DontSpamMe' from return address to respond.
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