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Mladen Gogala apparently said,on my timestamp of 21/06/2004 3:50 PM:
> Well, that is not quite true. If there are big tables that need to be read by using
> full table scan, than 16k buffer pool can act as recycle buffer pool and those
> big tables will be read faster then if the block size was 8k. You can still
I'd qualify that by including: "with raw data files".
With anything other than that, the I/O size is pretty much
fixed to what the f/s thinks is best and there is very little
one can do about it. Except use direct I/O (if it works in
your platform) or raw.
So many variables, so little time to test them all...
-- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision_at_optusnet.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request_at_freelists.org put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------Received on Mon Jun 21 2004 - 05:33:49 CDT
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