>>> >>>Have you folks had any chance of trying out the different IO >>>schedulers in 2.6? The anticipatory one seems to be the >>>ticket for FTS-oriented systems. RH has an article on some >>>benchmarks they did that seems to indicate the cfq is best >>>overall for Oracle: >>>http://www.redhat.com/magazine/008jun05/features/schedulers/ funny you should ask. I've got a PoC underway now with 8 dual proc single socket Opteron blades attached to a formidable FC SAN and plan to do just that ... I'll be writing a paper once I have the numbers ... oh, I'm also testing apples-apples 2socket single core Opteron versus 2socket dual core Opteron :-) ... but those results wont go in the paper :-) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l