The photo shows "10x more write I/O's" To drive DBWR at a rate of 10x you need CPU. That is, if free buffer waits are holding your processor-utilization at about 10% and your app (and what your app does to the Oracle database concurrency code) scales you might get 10x... but then don't forget that your observed processor utilization on modern processors (most of which have SMT) includes thread execution so a server that is at about 70% is generally maxed out. In other words, it depends. ________________________________ From: hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 11:19 PM Subject: OLTP 10x improvement with exadata and flash write back cache Hi Has anybody started using this feature https://twitter.com/fritshoogland/status/235146135084351488 of and experienced a 10X improvement in their OLTP applications by enabling flash write back cache ? Under what specific circumstances do you think that 10X improvement is possible. What bottleneck would motivate us to turn on the exadata flash write back cache feature Can a SSD also achieve the same thing as a flash write back cache ? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l