RE: OT: high WIO on Linux

  • From: "Kevin Closson" <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:42:28 -0800

 >>>In theory, Oracle's dbwr is supposed to be able to initiate 
>>>other io requests while wating for any given one to 
>>>complete.  In practice there seems to be an empyrical limit 
>>>to this, not very clear why.

The only limiting factor on dbwr outstanding IO requests is
the lower-level io queue depth. If you have really fast IO and
really deep queues, you can see dbwr with well over a thousand
outstanding IO requests.

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