Re: Max datafile size in AIX5.2L

Byron Pearce apparently said,on my timestamp of 30/06/2004 1:13 AM:

> I think you're referring to the post I put out on the list Friday. It
> was from an IBM document on Oracle Performance Tuning that said:

Bingo. Thanks. Very interesting post.

> The big file attribute increases the minimum DIO transfer size
> (diocapbuf.dio_min returned by the finfo system call) from 4K to 128K,

I'm just wondering: can anyone with access to AIX do a trial of this? C program, open a file and get the info with finfo() for this
parameter. With/without DIO so we can be sure?

> experience or comments on it. I have not been able to wrangle resources
> to try and run some empirical tests at this point, but there is quite a
> bit of internal discussions (not heated just yet) starting to take place
> as a result of the doc.

I'll bet! :)

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Cheers
Nuno Souto
in sunny Sydney, Australia
dbvision_at_optusnet.com.au
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