More information about the SDU parameter can be found in the Net Services Administrator's Guide: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/network.111/b28316/performance.htm# -- Jason Heinrich On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Dennis Yurichev <dennis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi. > > Just read this at > http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28279/chapter1.htm > > ==== > 1.6.1.1 Fast Bulk Data Transfers > > Oracle Database now uses a larger session data unit (SDU) by default. > Optimizations to the Network Session SDU size result in significant > performance gains for large data transfers. > > This feature also takes advantage of zero copy and vectored I/O at the > network level. > > Fast bulk data transfers result in significant performance improvements > for large data transfers. > ==== > > Is this feature should be specially turned on, off, or tuned, or are > there any information more? > >