Ah, good question. I have access to Solaris, but not the correct version. On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:26:21 -0500, Richard Ji <richard.c.ji@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jared, > > As far as I understand it. On Solaris 8 and onward, by default > Asynch IO is turned on and Oracle will use it by issue a KAIO. If it's > raw device or Veritas quick IO, the KAIO will succeed. Otherwise > KAIO will fail and an AIO that's simulated by LWP doing pwrite() will > happen. That's why there are 258 LWP under the DBWR process. > > Now, I can turn Asynch IO off and use Oracle's dbwr slaves to > simulate that as well. But as far as I know, one would only want > to do that on a platform that doesn't support AIO. In either case, > you chose one way or the other. But on this DB that I saw, both > are set. So I am wondering which one will it use? I don't have > enough permission on the system to truss the process or anything. > So I wonder if anyone has seen it before and the implication of > having both set. > > Best regards > > Richard Ji > > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l