Path: news.cambrium.nl!textnews.cambrium.nl!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!80.86.168.138.MISMATCH!news-feed.eu.lambdanet.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!not-for-mail From: Mladen Gogala Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Advice on running Oracle with SGA > 20 GB Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: solani.org Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: solani.org 1265133203 28175 eJwNyckVADAEBcCWYvlIOXj0X0Iy14EYWbsaTLHY3ZTopiyu4HLa+keHr4/OiAS36ehJSBb6ASpVEVA= (2 Feb 2010 17:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:53:23 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBACAIBLBK8h0QRwT6R3AzAeG5wqC2tk5dPNOjSAneWZRkaN9HLpch0D3w6gyE4wMmyRDx Cancel-Lock: sha1:ciFudxK+WRv5/Sb4RkFYUgPtjIw= User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwQcBwEAIBDBLzAPk9Bn+JTRxBaPD4DA/vwf48XZNKmFGieaJeZt9Wim9cVuKltDm3B8c4hEJ Xref: news.cambrium.nl On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:02:08 -0800, vsevolod afanassiev wrote: > Linux is a bit different as there is no direct I/O (as far as I know), > unless you use raw devices or ASM. Huh? There is direct I/O, I am using it for years, I have even been writing about it.. > So memory that doesn't get allocated to SGA will be used for filesystem > buffer cache. Yup. That's why I use direct I/O. -- http://mgogala.byethost5.com