RE: ORION

 Brandon Allen posted in Nov 2005 and I copy his post below. I don't
think it answers your question but the thraed may hold other answers and
Brandon may be able to assit as well
I checked the list archives at http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
 
When you have resolved it why not post the solution
 
HTH
 
John
 
Here is a repeat of a post I made back in November 2005 - in case anyone
is having trouble getting it to work on Windows.  I haven't checked
lately,
but at the time, it wasn't clearly documented.  In retrospect, maybe it
should have been more obvious to me that I had to specify a datafile,
but it
wasn't obvious at the time:


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 In case anyone else wants to use ORION on Windows, I finally figured
out
how to get it to work.  Apparently you have to specify an actual Oracle
datafile, not just a directory or empty text file.  I put
"C:\oracle\oradata\orcl\example01.dbf" in my mytest.lun file, and then
ORION worked, giving me the following command-line output:
C:\Program Files\Oracle\Orion>orion -run simple -testname mytest
-num_disks 1
ORION: ORacle IO Numbers -- Version 10.2.0.1.0
Test will take approximately 9 minutes
Larger caches may take longer


And the following results in mytest_summary.txt:
ORION VERSION 10.2.0.1.0
Commandline:
-run simple -testname mytest -num_disks 1
This maps to this test:
Test: mytest
Small IO size: 8 KB
Large IO size: 1024 KB
IO Types: Small Random IOs, Large Random IOs
Simulated Array Type: CONCAT
Write: 0%
Cache Size: Not Entered
Duration for each Data Point: 60 seconds
Small Columns:,      0
Large Columns:,      0,      1,      2
Total Data Points: 8
Name: C:\oracle\oradata\orcl\example01.dbf Size: 157294592
1 FILEs found.
Maximum Large MBPS=9.01 @ Small=0 and Large=2
Maximum Small IOPS=52 @ Small=2 and Large=0
Minimum Small Latency=20.45 @ Small=1 and Large=0
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Subject: ORION


Good evening
 
I am going to setup ORION(Oracle I/O Numbers Calibration Tool) on my new
Linux server to test disk I/O of my database server. I am so confused
the setup procedures in the User Guide. Did anyone work on ORION before
and would be able to help me answer the questions that I have? 
 
1. In the User Guide, it said that ORION test is completely dependent on
asyn I/O, so the library libaio needs to be in one of the standard lib
directory or accessible through the shell env library path variable
(LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LIBPATH). How can I meet this requirement? I checked
the Liunx box, there is libaio rpm installed. 
 
# rpm -qa libaio
libaio-0.3.96-5
 
2. Do I must create mytest.lun file and use this name for the value of
-testname during the test?
 
3. What does physical spindles mean? This is the value that need to be
passed to -num_disks parameter.
 
 
Many thanks for all the help and happy Thanksgiving.
Cindy

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