Re: Post-Wait

From: Eric Junkermann <eric_at_deptj.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:53:19 GMT
Message-ID: <363086f9.462190@news.demon.co.uk>

On Fri, 02 Oct 1998 14:47:01 +0100, Mike Berriman <berriman_at_sco.com> wrote:

>I've just installed Oracle Server V7.3.3 on SCO UNIX 5.0.4. The
>application on testing is running somewhat slow so I have had to do some
>performance tuning both on the OS and Oracle. SHMMAX is now set to
>400000000 SEMMNI 40 SEMMNS 200 the Total S.G.A. is 326403976.
>
>I think it is the app that is slow but, one of app. developers has
>suggested activating SCO's Post-Wait facility and setting an init
>parameter USE_POST_WAIT_DRIVER = TRUE.
>
>I hadn't heard of Post-Wait before and have only been able to obtain
>some SCO literature on it nothing on Oracle. It sounds worth a try but
>has anyone had any experience of using this or heard of any related
>problems.
>
>Would really appreciate some imput.
>Regards,
>Mike Berriman

I don't know about SCO, but something with the same name works quite nicely on AIX - if you can get a version of the OS on which it works properly. Try looking in your system-specific release notes, or ask Oracle support.

E. Received on Sat Oct 24 1998 - 14:53:19 CDT