I haven't worked on Solaris in awhile, so I don't n know if the following is true on your version of Solaris or not. I believe I last tested it on 2.6 or 2.7. Enabling disk_io_sync on Solaris does not not cause async IO on filesytems, only on raw disk. You may want to investigate. Jared On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 22:21:10 -0500, Richard Ji <richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I found out on a database (8174, Solaris 8 Sparc, EMC) that I use, > while disk_asynch_io is set to true, the dbwr_io_slaves is set to non zero, 6. > And I am seeing a lot of "slave wait" events. The two obviously conflicts and > I wonder what kind of effect this have caused when both are enabled. > > Thanks. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l