On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm still not sure that is the case. The specific parameter doco says that > if not specified, it is set to a default value. It might be "blahblah" for > others but it isn't of necessity auto-tuned. It may be a poor choice of wording in the docs. I would personally call it auto-chosen vs auto-tuned. > *IF* there are system stats and *IF* the param is not specified, it might > indeed be auto-set. But as Syed Jaffar Hussein pointed out and I have also > observed a number of times, it is anything but "tuned". In fact in many > cases of auto-setting, it is just plain wrong. In cases were db_file_multiblock_read_count is unset what are the values for _db_file_exec_read_count _db_file_optimizer_read_count IIRC _db_file_exec_read_count=8 and _db_file_optimizer_read_count=((max I/O size)/DB_BLOCK_SIZE)), so usually 1MB I/O size. > So far, I've been getting same or better performance > setting it to the SAN's stripe block size rather than letting it set itself. > 10.2.0.3 here. I'm assuming I/O efficiencies (elapsed times), but are the execution plans the same? What performance differences do you see in a 64KB net MBRC (your strip size) setting vs a 1MB MBRC I/O size? I've some seen cases on some SANs where smaller I/O sizes actually yield better overall I/O times. This has been attributed to I/O prefetch algorithms on the SAN But on the other hand I've seen cases where it doesn't matter either way. -- Regards, Greg Rahn http://structureddata.org -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l