Nuno writes: > In my dbs - with 11.2.0.3 Oracle and Aix 7.1 (both P6 and P7) I am using > JFS2 and 4K blocksize for the file systems across the board. > I am also using 8K block size for DB files (bigfiles) and 4K for all > redo logs - with the "_" parameter that enables setting the redo block > size. So, a 4K agblksize and 8K DB_BLOCK_SIZE? > We use a VMAX SAN with 4Gbps FC cards for P6 and 8Gbps FC cards for the P7. Interesting! I wonder how the VMAX compares with the XIV for performance. I don't think I'll be using any undocumented parameters, but your setup seems to work very well for you from those numbers. How many members in your redolog groups? Thanks! Rich -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l