Re: RMAN Performance Maladies

  • From: "Jared Still" <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: naqimirza@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:41:49 -0800

On 2/12/07, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I would not expect RAID5 to be a problem during backup, unless there is a
lot of write activity to the drives during that time.



Arrr!! Belay that!

Somehow I was under the impression that the read media was RAID5,
though the email clearly stated you are backing up *to* RAID5.

Yes, that may be somewhat slower than RAID0, RAID1, RAID10 and even JBOD.

Look on the bright side - if it were RAID6 it would be even slower.


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Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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