InterSystems has found that Cache' journaling performance is impacted by a bug recently fixed by Sun Microsystems for the Solaris 9 Operating System.
This advisory applies to any version of Cache' running on the Solaris 9 OS without the documented patch.
The Sun Microsystems BugID is 4336082 and the fix is delivered in Patch-ID 112233-12.
A simple test can be run from the Cache' command line before and after applying the patch to illustrate the performance improvement provided by the patch:
Assuming that ^scratch is an unused global and is journalled and that there is enough disk space to run this test.
USER>s str="",$p(str,".",174)="." w $l(str) 174 USER>s beg=$zh f i=1:1:10000 ts s ^scratch=str tc i $zu(78,29)
USER>w $zh-beg
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