> Hi D�hr,
>       Does the size of the data cache have any bearing on the amount
> of data written. i.e. will a smaller DATA CACHE reduce the magnitude of
> the surge?

Certainly - but then again it will slow down your queries, too, and also
lead to more frequent write operations.  I would not believe that this is
what you want.  I'd definitely reduce the cache size if it's currently
taking up more mem than physically available in the system (=> swapping).

Regards

robert

> Regards,
> Ajit
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D�hr [mailto:D�hr] 
> Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2005 3:22 AM
> To: 'Ajit Aranha'; '[email protected]'
> Subject: RE: Surge in IO writes by kernel.exe
> 
> > Every 10 minutes the kernel.exe does a large amount of i/o 
> > writes for a few seconds.(Monitored from windows performance 
> > monitor) At this time query execution time increases. This 
> > seems to be related to savepoints (Specifically the db 
> > parameter RESTART_TIME=600).
> > Is this avoidable??
> 
> This is by design.
> 
> The data gets changed in the CACHE, if there are enough "dirty" pages
> (pages
> that have changed) or every 10 minutes, the kernel flushes the changed
> pages
> onto the disk.
> 
> If page would be written immediately to the disk, the whole system would
> slow down doing constant write I/O on the disks.
> 
> Maybe you can change the number of volumes and distribute them accross
> various disks so that they will get parallized. 
> 
> 
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> 
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