Re: What combination of Solaris & Oracle?

From: Jesus M. Salvo Jr. <jmsalvo_at_ihug.com.au>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:05:54 +1000
Message-ID: <9pg1qo$j8e$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au>

El Toro wrote:

>
> Oracle 8.1.7 because it is the only one of the 8i re-
> leases that allow async I/O against filesystems. Yep,
> no matter WHAT you do or what parameter you set on 8.1.5
> and 8.1.6, Oracle will not use asyn I/O if it discovers
> that the datafiles are on a filesystem (it does an fstat()
> call to find out).

Can you point to some reference / documentation regarding this async I/O not working with Oracle < 8.1.7 ?

> Also, check out the _filesystemio_options
> parameter in 8.1.7 for more info on performance benefits
> of using Solaris 8 w/Oracle 8.1.7.
>
> These are just some of the reasons that come to mind.
>

Thanks,

John Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 17:05:54 CDT