On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:00:14PM +0800, zhu chao wrote: > Unless your system is really heavy write, async doesnot help much. I > perfer directio+multiple dbwr. Steve Adam's comments on this may be of interest: http://www.ixora.com.au/q+a/0011/01170259.htm "It would be better to say that direct I/O benefits all I/O for which file system buffering is not required. The only Oracle files that benefit from file system buffering are the control files. So direct I/O should be used for all other Oracle files." ============================================================ Ray Stell stellr@xxxxxx (540) 231-4109 Tempus fugit 28^D -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l