Döhr, Markus ICC-H wrote:

Hi!

> [...]
> 
>>And even if I had enough RAM to keep only 6 GB: At the 
>>current read-spead of the DB it takes almost 2 hours to 
>>completely slurp in the data.
>>
>>Working with this system you can actually feel this: If you 
>>access something by an index that is currently not cached it 
>>takes _ages_ - subsequent accesses are as quick as you would expect.
>>
>>I'd like to hear something from SAP here: What kind of 
>>hardware do they suggest for proper i/o-performance?

> We are seeing this too - and IMHO it's not the I/O subsystem that is causing
> issues but the sequential read of the database itself (no PQO, no prefetch
> (yet)).

i dont really care - it's inside the DB :)

> We're actually seeing this when we're exporting a (SAP) database of ~ 150
> GB. It takes about 28 hours to determin the size of the tables (via select
> count(*) <tablename>) - over the weekend on a not loaded EVA system. The
> parallel export itself is then done in 4 hours. 

isnt the engine supposed to know the size of tables? that's what they
told us at TU-Berlin when they showed some internals some years ago - i
still have the slides :)

but i know that this optimization does not exist.

> This issue is known and AFAIK beeing worked on. 

it's known for ages and it should've been solved with 7.6 - i'm really
curious if anything will happen at all :(

        Raimund

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