Re: Max datafile size in AIX5.2L

  • From: Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:45:51 +1000

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
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