to use cio you have to have your filesystemio_options set to setall we are actualy use this in our oltp environments with great success. but again esting is really very important. ibm fas a complete document on performance options with cio and 9i. you can find it on their website Fuad The Human Fly <sjaffarhussain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Oracle 9i Rel2. (9205). This is bug is not the issue. This was cleared by Oracle support in the TAR. On 2/14/06, Anand Rao wrote: > Hi, > > any idea what version of Oracle that you are using :-) > > thanks for the info... > > well, there is a lot of debate on 'log file sync' and 'log file parallel > write' and there is timing bug too. Look at BUG: 2669566. > > look at http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/log_file_writes.html > > also, what was your setting for disk_async_io, filesystemio_options and > _lgwr_async_io? > > did you modify any of these? > > thanks > > anand > > > On 14/02/06, The Human Fly wrote: > > > > Hello list, > > > > Today we have a light smile on our face because we were struggling > > with log file sync event on one of our business critical database. We > > opened a TAR and implemented everything they have suggested. > > Yesterday, we made litte changes, like, created a new mountpoint > > enabling CIO (concurrent I/O) on AIX 5.3 using JFS2 filesystem, and > > move our redo groups to this new mount point also increased the size > > of redo groups from 512M to 1gb. > > When we look at the log file sysn event in the statspack, it was just > > vanished. Earlier, we used to get 40% as log file synce in the top > > timed events and now it is just 3%. Its really a drastic change in the > > wait event. > > Now, I am planning to do the same for our datafiles, i.e. enabling cio > > and moving the tablespace to new moutn point. Redo has only inserts, > > but, for tables, we have read and write, does this can improve the > > throughput? Will there be any performance gain? Does anyone using this > > kind of option with JFS2 filesystem? > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > Syed Jaffar Hussain > > 8i,9i & 10g, OCP DBA > > Banque Saudi Fransi, > > Saudi Arabia > > http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > > > -- Best Regards, Syed Jaffar Hussain 8i,9i & 10g, OCP DBA Banque Saudi Fransi, Saudi Arabia http://jaffardba.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Winners don't do different things. They do things differently." -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l