Nuno,
You are only *half* right, I fear.
Actually, at least one of -- and perhaps both -- MetaLink and Werner
describe more or less
the same caveat, that is: applications *other* than Oracle may be
responsible for the non-zero
counts in slabinfo.
But here's the half where you're wrong. (Or at least, not completely
"right".) Those hypothetical
"other" applications can just as easily be resposibly for the *increases*
in the slabinfo stats as
they are they would be for "non-zero" values. After all, those values had
to increase from zero
*some* *time*, didn't they. ;-)
Anyway, you are correct about this: I am still unaware of a simple way
to prove *conclusively*
that a database is actually using Asynch I/O. But (on a good day) I now
at least know how to
prove that it is *not*. (Or at least that *no* databases *are*. Sadly,
multiple database on the
same host muddy the water even more.)
If anybody out there can tell me of a simple (and reliable) test that
*proves* a database is using
Asynch I/O, I'd like to hear about it...
In the meantime, it has (happily) met my purposes to be able to prove
the negative.
On 7/28/06, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Mark Brinsmead wrote,on my timestamp of 28/07/2006 1:39 PM:
>
> > (Almost) just for chuckles, I opened an SR with Oracle support, asking
> > questions like "how can
> > I test whether my DB is doing Asynch I/O on Linux?" and "knowing that
> > Asynch I/O is unsupported,
> > what are the risks of doing so anyway?". After almost two weeks, the
> > questions are unanswered,
> > even though I was able to answer them myself with less than an hour of
>
> > surfing Metalink and Google.
>
> yes, there is a note in metaclick explaining how to check.
> But it's not complete, neither is werner's site:
> you check for those counters in /proc/slabinfo being
> non-zero *AND* changing in value when you startup Oracle!
> There might be *other* software around already using aio
> and just having them as non-zero is not enough to say
> Oracle is using it.
>
> DAMHIKT...
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> in (finally) sunny Sydney, Australia
> dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Cheers,
-- Mark Brinsmead
Staff DBA,
The Pythian Group
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