Scott, The temp tablespace is on a disk of his own. Thanks!
Charles On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 7:58 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:53 AM, Charles Nadeau > <charles.nad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mark, > > > > I increased the read ahead to 16384 and it doesn't improve performance. > My > > RAID 0 use a stripe size of 256k, the maximum size supported by the > > controller. > > Are your queries still spilling to disk for sorts? If this is the > case, and they're just too big to fit in memory, then you need to move > your temp space, where sorts happen, onto another disk array that > isn't your poor overworked raid-10 array. Contention between sorts and > reads can kill performance quick, esp on spinning rust. > -- Charles Nadeau Ph.D. http://charlesnadeau.blogspot.com/