Re: direct read is much faster than scattered read, is it reasonable?

some direct path read can caused by "scattered read" as well, like parallel
read into pga, and when "serial_direct_path_read=true"

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Alexander Fatkulin <afatkulin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> You can take a look at v$event_histogram to see how distribution goes
>
> don't forget that direct path reads are done by 1M chunks
> (_db_file_direct_io_count) while scattered read are driven by
> db_file_multiblock_read_count -- it might as well be that your SAN is able
> to do better prefetching in case of 1M chunks, you can find out by altering
> dbfmrc at the session level to a different values and see how it will affect
> the results
>
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>> Thanks,
>> Qihua
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>
>
>
> --
> Alex Fatkulin,
> The Pythian Group,
> http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alexf




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