Chris, I found this white paper from metalink to be helpful. Asynchronous I/O (aio) on RedHat Advanced Server Version 2.1 - 3.0 (Note:225751.1) http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=225751.1 Ron >>> "David" <thump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 01/14/2005 1:05:03 PM >>> Everything I have read advocates aio on RHAS 3.0. I have heard also it can cause crashes and corruption, but found no meat to that statement no open bugs for 9205/9206 on rhas 3.0 Anyone with any hard facts as to real issues or successes? Anyone done an IO slave implementation in Linux/RAC? IO slaves in many ways are more robust and multi purpose than asych IO functionality...but I'm wondering how that performs with RAC. Yes, I would and will test either or both before consideration with prod, but looking for others insights if they have been down the road. -- .. David >> >> Matthew, >> >>>>bugs related to 9i RAC on Linux and asynch io >> >> Can you point to any (bugs) specifically or should I just search >> Metalink? >> >> I was considering enabling this for my 9iRAC/RHEL3ES...Oracle >> (marketing, presentations) imply that I should be doing this. >> Frankly Oracle Corp. takes much credit for helping RH/Linux get to >> async-IO? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Chris Marquez >> Oracle DBA >> HEYMONitor(tm) - heymonitor.com >> "Oracle Monitoring & Alerting Solution" -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l