We're rerunning all the scenarios today. I hope to have some stuff tomorrow. I will look into these settings. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:40 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Oracle on Windows Vs. Linux >>>Have you set noatime for the oracle filesystems? set filesystemio_options = directIO and atime will not be updated...that is opne of the by-products of open with the O_DIRECT flag. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l