Re: MVS and large database
Date: 1996/07/12
Message-ID: <31E676C4.55D1_at_nla.gov.au>#1/1
Brian McCabe wrote:
> The site I am working at is also experiencing problems with Oracle
> performance on MVS. We are planning to migrate from AIX to MVS and
> although the database only currently stands at less than 100Gb, we
> intend to reach pretty near to the 1Tb figure next year.
>
> Initial performance of Oracle on MVS is very disappointing and no
> obvious bottle-neck has been determined to date. The Orace Instance is
> idling, the network is not under any great stress and the MVS-Gurus tell
> us that nothing is pushing the operating system or disk IO sub-system.
>
> A question for Bill - is there a repository of information on tuning
> Oracle for MVS anywhere which contains information which is not in the
> Oracle/MVS SYS Admin Guides? We have followed these instructions to the
> letter and performance is still at least three times as poor as on the
> AIX Box.
>
> Can anyone else offer any pointers in the right direction????