On 02/20/2004 09:40:21 AM, Ruth Gramolini wrote: > Good morning all, > We just installed a new fast disk farm with fiber channels. For production > we are using raid 10. My SA set in up with a stipe size of 64K based on the > size of most of the transactions. He wants to know if this will be OK. I > don't know so I told him I would ask the experts. What do you think? > This will guarantee parallelization of all I/O requests larger then 64k. Whether it's OK or not, depends on your average I/O size (sar is irreplacible for this) and whether you have hot disks or not. Also, RAID configurations usually have caches. Caches, in turn, come in two garden varieties: writhe back and write thru. Impact of a good write-back cache must not be underestimated, because it can speed up your commits and checkpoints for an order of magnitude. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------