I fully agree. Oracle will try to set it to the maximum size of an
atomic I/O operation on the given platform. For Linux, it's 1MB. That's
why the default with 8K blocks is 128: 8K*128 = 1 MB.
On 1/15/21 7:42 PM, Andrew Kerber wrote:
Since 10gr2, it has always been best to not set this and let oracle determine a good value.