what is the stripe width? Are you looping the 6 drives in every call? ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Still Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 12:46 PM To: kmoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l Subject: Re: I/O and db_file_multiblock_read_count Adding fuel to the fire. This on a somewhat busy Dual CPU linux box. The SAN is Clariion CX700. Disk is a dedicated RAID10, though I'm not positive about the number of spindles. There are I believe 6 spindles.