RE: db_file_multiblock_read_count causing full scans to takelonger?

  • From: "Kevin Closson" <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Don Seiler" <don@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:23:40 -0800

 
>>>
>>>I'm currently on VXFS.  My SA is hot for ASM, I haven't had 
>>>a chance to do even the smallest bit of research into it.  
>>>Any words of warning wrt I/O improvements or drop-offs?

Well, here we have a topic that should be considered just one
of the many reasons to use Direct I/O on all filesystems. ASM is
raw disk so you certainly wont have **this** problem--if it is
indeed read-ahead oriented.

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