Hi David, Thanks, our oracle is 11.2.0.3 both on AIX and Linux are the same . Aix : 6.0 Linux : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago) Filesysem is NFS on netapps, direct NFS enabled. vftss-gpdata-01-stor.uit.tufts.edu:/vol/dw_prod_sdw01/dw_prod_sdw01 209715200 53072512 156642688 26% /SDWPRD Thanks, joan -----Original Message----- From: David Barbour [mailto:david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 1:54 PM To: Hsieh, Joan Cc: oracle_l Subject: Re: linux Async io Joan, It appears it is - but may not be very efficient at this point. What version of Oracle and Linux are you using? What type of filesystem/disk/etc. (Not just NetApps - ASM, OCFS, etc.)? On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Hsieh, Joan <Joan.Hsieh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > We are migrating DW database from AIX to linux, the online transaction is ok > compared to AIX. But the batch job is 35% slower than AIX. Of course, the > architecture are different, the storage is Netapps on Linux. From the awa > report. 60% time is user IO waiting. I'm not sure how to read the following > information, is it async io enabled? > > Thank, > > Joan > > dwdb-prod-01:c0ra1e)SDWPRD:/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/bin> cat /proc/slabinfo | > grep kio > kioctx 56 80 384 10 1 : tunables 54 27 8 : > slabdata 8 8 0 > kiocb 0 0 256 15 1 : tunables 120 60 8 : > slabdata 0 0 0 > dwdb-prod-01:c0ra1e)SDWPRD:/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/ > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l