RE: OT: high WIO on Linux

From: Nuno Souto <dbvision_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:46:26 +0800
Message-ID: <1142466386.4418a752e07ef@mail.iinet.net.au>

Quoting Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com>:

> queueing and servicing. The bigger worry you should have is whether
> your Linux
> distro is taking Oracle's multiblock IOs (direct path read/write,
> scattered read,
> CCF,etc) and chopping them up into a bunch of little (e.g., 32KB, 64KB)
> chunks
> in the scsi mid-layer.

which is exactly what RHEL3 and other 2.4 kernel distros will do. DAMHIKT...

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Received on Wed Mar 15 2006 - 17:46:26 CST