How busy and what is the I/O plumbing? Can't discuss SQL processing without mentioning CPU utilization and can't discuss PIO without discussing plumbing. ________________________________ From: Ls Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> To: Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oracle Mailinglist <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 9:41 AM Subject: Re: single session I/O bandwidth Hi In IBM p7 I just run 32 parallels against a 50GB table using a count(*) and FTS and got 1350MB/sec in the XIV Array and all slaves were waiting for "direct path read", only 6 CPU (or thread since this AIX LPAR) were busy Regards -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l