One quick note on this... direct reads do not always indicate temp (or even parallel). In 11g Oracle will sometimes start using direct path reads for serial full tablescans. I recently observed this happening a lot with one of my clients. FYI, I believe that this particular database had an underconfigured SGA... might be related. Interestingly, because Oracle was doing so many FTS with direct path, the BCHR looked deceptively healthy. -Jeremy Steve Harville wrote: > I have not tried this setting but I do have some experience with > Oracle on flash drives. > We are an EMC shop so most I/O is already cached (all writes and all > sequential reads). The system cannot cache random reads so that is > where I use flash drives. The temp tablespace can benefit the most > from flash drives since it exhibits this read pattern. If "direct > reads" are a large part of your total wait time then you can probably > benefit from moving temp to flash. > > Steve Harville > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveharville > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Zhu,Chao <zhuchao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> hi, List friends, >> Oracle has been promoting this flash cache as second tier cache for >> oracle for a while; Just wondering whether anyone has used this within the >> industry? >> We typically have 30gb-60gb SGA supporting 1TB-4TB database; We found >> usually 30gb or 60gb cache size does not really matter much for majority of >> our database(some has big diff though, depends on workload profile/active >> dataset); But a 300gb flashdisk might make huge difference, and help reduce >> the IOPS load on the SAN side? >> >> Looking forward to industry experience; >> >> Thx >> >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> Zhu Chao >> -- http://www.ardentperf.com +1 312-725-9249 Jeremy Schneider Chicago -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l