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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Linux & Disk configuration with Oracle 8i
Oracle Performance Tuning from O'Really says:
1 Disk for Operating System
rest for oracle.
In your case I would do the following:
Using RAID-Level 5 or
Redologs - > Disk1
the rest -> Disk2
billmil_at_my-deja.com wrote:
> We will soon install Oracle 8i on a new Linux box with a RAID
> controller. We've selected Raid Level 1 (mirroring) so that initial
> four disks have become two mirrored disks. Documentation and the
> Oreilly books recommend:
> -Separate disks for data, redo logs, archive files
> -Separate disks for data and index tablespaces
> -Separate disks for rollback segments
> -System tablespace on a separate disk or a lightly used disk.
>
> The question: With only two disks, how would you configure Oracle for
> maximum throughput? (e.g.=. should you use one disk for the tablespace
> data and one disk for everything else, or would it be better to have
> the rollback and tablespace data on different disks, etc.)
>
> On a more general note, does anyone in the linux world implement an
> *ideal* disk layout--i.e. 14 different disk drives, with system, data,
> redo logs, rollback, archivelog dests, etc. each with their own drive
> (see Kreines & Laskey's Oracle Database Administration, O'Reilly, p.
> 209)? Mirroring would bring your total to 28 different disks? Is this
> configuration even possible in the Linux realm?
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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