Byron Pearce apparently said,on my timestamp of 30/06/2004 1:13 AM: > I think you're referring to the post I put out on the list Friday. It > was from an IBM document on Oracle Performance Tuning that said: Bingo. Thanks. Very interesting post. > The big file attribute increases the minimum DIO transfer size > (diocapbuf.dio_min returned by the finfo system call) from 4K to 128K, I'm just wondering: can anyone with access to AIX do a trial of this? C program, open a file and get the info with finfo() for this parameter. With/without DIO so we can be sure? > experience or comments on it. I have not been able to wrangle resources > to try and run some empirical tests at this point, but there is quite a > bit of internal discussions (not heated just yet) starting to take place > as a result of the doc. I'll bet! :) -- Cheers Nuno Souto in sunny Sydney, Australia dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------